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shraddhasingh68
shraddhasingh68
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February 8, 2019
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Connection refused error while starting namenode from Ambari UI

I am getting error while installing namenode where it says "-safemode get | grep 'Safe mode is OFF''"

Ambari:2.7.0.0

HDP:3.0

I got the below error and I ran :

>hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave
>Output:safemode: Call From devaz01/10.161.137.4 to devaz01:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused

then I ran>chmod -R 644 /var/log/hadoop/hdfs
Since then I am getting: Execution of 'ambari-sudo.sh su hdfs -l -s /bin/bash -c 'ulimit -c unlimited ; /usr/hdp/3.0.1.0-187/hadoop/bin/hdfs --config /usr/hdp/3.0.1.0-187/hadoop/conf --daemon start namenode'' returned 1. ERROR: Unable to write in /var/log/hadoop/hdfs. Aborting.

019-02-08 03:31:21,394 - Retrying after 10 seconds. Reason: Execution of '/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-hdfs-namenode/bin/hdfs dfsadmin -fs hdfs://machine:8020 -safemode get | grep 'Safe mode is OFF'' returned 1. safemode: Call From machine/xx.xxx.xxx.x to machine:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused
safemode: Call From machine/10.161.137.4 to machine:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused

jsensharma
jsensharmaAnswer
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February 11, 2019

@Shraddha Singh

As we see the error :

ERROR: Unable to write in /var/log/hadoop/hdfs. Aborting.

.

So please make sure that the dir permissions are correctly set as following:

# ls -ld /var/log/hadoop/hdfs
drwxr-xr-x. 2 hdfs hadoop 8192 Feb 11 03:27 /var/log/hadoop/hdfs

.

If you see permissions are incorrectly set then please do the following and then try starting process again: (You executed chmod, better you change the ownership of the mentioned directories as following)

# chown -R hdfs:hadoop /var/log/hadoop

.

Then try your commands:

# su - hdfs
# hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

.

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Shelton
Shelton
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February 11, 2019

@Shraddha Singh

You are trying to run the dfsadmin command when the Namenode is not yet started. Please ensure the namendoe is in started status in Ambari

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    shraddhasingh68
    shraddhasingh68Author
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    February 11, 2019

    Hi @Geoffrey Shelton Okot

    I am getting the above error while starting the namenode from Ambari UI . When I click 'Start All' the services does not start because namenode is not getting started due to the above error.

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    jsensharma
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    jsensharmaAnswer
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    February 11, 2019

    @Shraddha Singh

    As we see the error :

    ERROR: Unable to write in /var/log/hadoop/hdfs. Aborting.

    .

    So please make sure that the dir permissions are correctly set as following:

    # ls -ld /var/log/hadoop/hdfs
    drwxr-xr-x. 2 hdfs hadoop 8192 Feb 11 03:27 /var/log/hadoop/hdfs

    .

    If you see permissions are incorrectly set then please do the following and then try starting process again: (You executed chmod, better you change the ownership of the mentioned directories as following)

    # chown -R hdfs:hadoop /var/log/hadoop

    .

    Then try your commands:

    # su - hdfs
    # hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

    .

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    shraddhasingh68
    shraddhasingh68Author
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    February 12, 2019

    Thanks @Jay Kumar SenSharma

    That worked for me!

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    Shelton
    Shelton
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    February 24, 2019

    @Shraddha Singh

    Any updates did my response resolve the issue if so accept so the thread is marked as closed.

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