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Exception seen when enabling HA for Namenode

Troubleshooting


Problem

Enabling HA for Namenode from Ambari Console Step 3f Initializing the JournalNode with manual steps sudo su hdfs -l -c 'hdfs namenode -initializeSharedEdits'

Symptom

ERROR namenode.NameNode: Could not initialize shared edits dir
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.qjournal.client.QuorumException: Unable to check
if JNs are ready for formatting. 2 successful responses:

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Modified date:
18 July 2020

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