Friday, April 8, 2011

Hadoop troubleshooting tips: Hadoop hangs before launching a job

Whenever a hadoop job hangs right after spitting out the following

11/04/08 13:52:59 INFO security.Groups: Group mapping impl=org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping; cacheTimeout=300000

After 6 hours of diagnoses, I realized there are two possible problems

1) namenode needs formatting. You do this by going to your hadoop-hadoop/ directory and deleting everything in there and running


bin/hdfs namenode format

2) examine the logs and look for exceptions in the datnode, tasktracker

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