Namenode and Datanode not starting

[vioravis]

This is Ravi from Udemy Hadoop Developer course.

I have been trying to work through the installation for the psuedo distribution mode but facing some issues. (Things work well until Stand Alone mode example)

When I try starting the daemons, I get the following message:

vioravis@vioravis-VirtualBox:~/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/bin$ start-all.sh 

 

starting namenode, logging to /home/vioravis/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-vioravis-namenode-vioravis-VirtualBox.out

localhost: starting datanode, logging to /home/vioravis/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-vioravis-datanode-vioravis-VirtualBox.out

localhost: starting secondarynamenode, logging to /home/vioravis/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-vioravis-secondarynamenode-vioravis-VirtualBox.out

starting jobtracker, logging to /home/vioravis/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-vioravis-jobtracker-vioravis-VirtualBox.out

localhost: starting tasktracker, logging to /home/vioravis/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/libexec/../logs/hadoop-vioravis-tasktracker-vioravis-VirtualBox.out

However, datanode and the namenode are not starting as shown by the jps command:

vioravis@vioravis-VirtualBox:~/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/bin$ jps

9040 Jps

8771 SecondaryNameNode

8996 TaskTracker

8858 JobTracker

I tried changing hdfs-site.xml with reference to dfs/data and dfs/name folders as given in the installation guide.

However, formatting doesn't generate the output suggested in the installation guide. Instead I get the following:

vioravis@vioravis-VirtualBox:~/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1/bin$ hadoop namenode –format

14/07/20 22:44:16 INFO namenode.NameNode: STARTUP_MSG: 

/************************************************************

STARTUP_MSG: Starting NameNode

STARTUP_MSG:   host = vioravis-VirtualBox/127.0.1.1

STARTUP_MSG:   args = [–format]

STARTUP_MSG:   version = 1.2.1

STARTUP_MSG:   build = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-1.2 -r 1503152; compiled by 'mattf' on Mon Jul 22 15:23:09 PDT 2013

STARTUP_MSG:   java = 1.7.0_60

************************************************************/

Usage: java NameNode [-format [-force ] [-nonInteractive]] | [-upgrade] | [-rollback] | [-finalize] | [-importCheckpoint] | [-recover [ -force ] ]

14/07/20 22:44:16 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: 

/************************************************************

SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down NameNode at vioravis-VirtualBox/127.0.1.1

************************************************************/

Namenode and  datanode are still not starting.

Could someone please explain what is causing this issue?

Thank you.

Ravi