https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132739#M47688 <P>I am suspecting that you might have an extra (`) back tick character in the beginning of that file.</P><P>I can reproduce the similar error at my end by intentionally editing the file and adding a ` (back tick at the very first line of this script)</P><P><STRONG>Example:</STRONG></P><PRE>[hdfs@erie1 ~]$ /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh --config /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf stop datanode /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 195: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 221: syntax error: unexpected end of file </PRE><P>Also which version of ambari &amp; hdp is it ?</P><P>.</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:03:12 GMT Former Member 2016-12-01T15:03:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132737#M47686 <P><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/legacyfs/online/attachments/9994-datanode-failed.jpg">datanode-failed.jpg</A></P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:51:44 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132737#M47686 sampath42 2016-12-01T14:51:44Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132738#M47687 <P>@<A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/14642/sampath42.html">Sampath Kumar</A></P><P>What happens when you try to start the Datanode manually from that host:</P><PRE>[root@erie1 ~]$ /var/lib/ambari-server/ambari-sudo.sh su hdfs -l -s /bin/bash -c 'ulimit -c unlimited' [root@erie1 ~]$ su - hdfs [hdfs@erie1 ~]$ /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh --config /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf start datanode </PRE><P>This will help in isolating the issue.</P><P>Just incase if you find the same kind of error there as well then please check the first few lines of the script on that host if it is correct.</P><PRE>/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh </PRE><P>.</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:59:26 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132738#M47687 Former Member 2016-12-01T14:59:26Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132739#M47688 <P>I am suspecting that you might have an extra (`) back tick character in the beginning of that file.</P><P>I can reproduce the similar error at my end by intentionally editing the file and adding a ` (back tick at the very first line of this script)</P><P><STRONG>Example:</STRONG></P><PRE>[hdfs@erie1 ~]$ /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh --config /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf stop datanode /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 195: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 221: syntax error: unexpected end of file </PRE><P>Also which version of ambari &amp; hdp is it ?</P><P>.</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:03:12 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132739#M47688 Former Member 2016-12-01T15:03:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132740#M47689 <P>@JSS</P><P>I didnt get any error with those 3 commands</P><P>below is the output I got when I ran the commands</P><P>starting datanode, logging to /var/log/hadoop/hdfs/hadoop-hdfs-datanode-ecsf00200104.out</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:23:52 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132740#M47689 sampath42 2016-12-01T15:23:52Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132741#M47690 <P>Ambari 2.1.2 </P><P>HDP 2.3</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:26:00 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132741#M47690 sampath42 2016-12-01T17:26:00Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132742#M47691 <P>Thanks <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3823/joysensharma.html" nodeid="3823">@jss</A></P><P>It Worked...</P> Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:36:10 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/DataNode-give-syntax-error-unexpected-end-of-file-and-failes/m-p/132742#M47691 sampath42 2016-12-01T18:36:10Z