Facing this issue with the namenode down. It is a parcel based CDH 5.15.2 installation on AWS.   9:15:18.262 PM ERROR NameNode Failed to start namenode. java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: /user/spark/spark2ApplicationHistory/.5e9b4c52-032a-4469-b278-80aa6254cfdf at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:66) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:56) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.applyEditLogOp(FSEditLogLoader.java:429) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadEditRecords(FSEditLogLoader.java:232) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLogLoader.loadFSEdits(FSEditLogLoader.java:141) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadEdits(FSImage.java:903) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:756) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:324) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:1152) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFromDisk(FSNamesystem.java:799) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.loadNamesystem(NameNode.java:614) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:676) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:844) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:823) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1547) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1615) 9:15:18.264 PM INFO ExitUtil Exiting with status 1 9:15:18.265 PM INFO NameNode SHUTDOWN_MSG: /************************************************************ SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at xxxx.xxxx.xxxx/**.**.**.** ************************************************************/       Stuck from two days. Any help will be highly appreciated.   Cheers, ... View more