Today suddenly I noticed I am not able to connect to hive view, on further investigation found that my hiveserver2. Datanode and RegionServer services are keep failing. Here is the detail datanode exception datanodelog.txt Exception: 2017-01-05 16:54:29,697 INFO common.Storage (Storage.java:tryLock(774)) - Lock on /tmp/hadoop-hdfs/dfs/data/in_use.lock acquired by nodename 8335@mpdemo-118-2-1.field.hortonworks.com 2017-01-05 16:54:29,701 WARN common.Storage (DataStorage.java:loadDataStorage(449)) - Failed to add storage directory [DISK]file:/tmp/hadoop-hdfs/dfs/data/ org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory /tmp/hadoop-hdfs/dfs/data is in an inconsistent state: Can't format the storage directory because the current/ directory is not empty. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.common.Storage$StorageDirectory.checkEmptyCurrent(Storage.java:480) ... View more