retrying.. after deleting everything in /dfs by:
cd /dfs
rm -r -f *
on each host including the CDh manager server...
This actually worked!!! thanks Darren, Thanks DIO.. here are the steps when you need to reinstall from a botched delete of hive or zookeeper and the service add gives you a null pointer exception, (see my prior posts).
1) Stop the cluster
2) delete the cluster
3) cd /dfs on each host
4) rm -r -f *
5) using the manager add the cluster
6) select the hosts tab and select alll hosts
7) choose all the defaults and click continue to start firstrun()
results:
Command Progress
Completed 20 of 20 steps.
| | Waiting for ZooKeeper Service to initialize Finished waiting Details |
| | Starting ZooKeeper Service Completed 1/1 steps successfully Details |
| | Checking if the name directories of the NameNode are empty. Formatting HDFS only if empty. Sucessfully formatted NameNode. Details |
| | Starting HDFS Service Successfully started HDFS service Details |
| | Creating HDFS /tmp directory HDFS directory /tmp already exists. Details |
| | Creating MR2 job history directory Successfully created MR2 job history directory. Details |
| | Creating NodeManager remote application log directory Successfully created NodeManager remote application log directory. Details |
| | Starting YARN (MR2 Included) Service Successfully started service Details |
| | Creating Hive Metastore Database Created Hive Metastore Database. Details |
| | Creating Hive Metastore Database Tables Created Hive Metastore Database Tables successfully. Details |
| | Creating Hive user directory Successfully created Hive user directory. Details |
| | Creating Hive warehouse directory Successfully created Hive warehouse directory. Details |
| | Starting Hive Service Service started successfully. Details |
| | Creating Oozie database Oozie database created successfully. Details |
| | Installing Oozie ShareLib in HDFS Successfully installed Oozie ShareLib Details |
| | Starting Oozie Service Service started successfully. Details |
| | Creating Sqoop user directory Successfully created Sqoop user directory. Details |
| | Starting Sqoop Service Service started successfully. Details |
| | Starting Hue Service Service started successfully. Details |
