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Hadoop single node installation : Fails to start namenode

I have given all the configurations as per this document. Using the same installation steps, while I have installed on one machine successfully. The other machine is showing the following error while starting the namenode

> 15/12/14 02:19:46 INFO util.GSet: capacity      = 2^15 = 32768 entries     
> 15/12/14 02:19:46 ERROR namenode.NameNode: Failed to start namenode.
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI has an authority component    at
> java.io.File.<init>(File.java:423) 
>>at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NNStorage.getStorageDirectory(NNStorage.java:329)  

>>  at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.initJournals(FSEditLog.java:276) 

>>  at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSEditLog.initJournalsForWrite(FSEditLog.java:247)
 >  at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.format(NameNode.java:985)
 
>>  at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1429)

>>  at
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1554)

> 15/12/14 02:19:46 INFO util.ExitUtil: Exiting with status 1 15/12/14
> 02:19:46 INFO namenode.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: 
> /************************************************************
Solution

  • thanks for the suggestions. It turned out to be a blooper, I have put only two /'s instead of three as given in the document for the URI. It works now !