How to copy files into HDFS? - hadoop

Question

I am trying to start a hadoop single node cluster on my local machine. I have configured the following files according to https://amodernstory.com/2014/09/23/installing-hadoop-on-mac-osx-yosemite/: hadoop-env.sh, core-site.xml, mapred-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml. When I run the script start-dfs.sh and then the command jps (right after running start-dfs.sh) I see that the datanode is up and running:
15735 Jps
15548 DataNode
15660 SecondaryNameNode
15453 NameNode
A few seconds later, I re-run the command jps and I see that the datanode is not running. Why? How to resolve this?
After that I run the script start-yarn.sh and then the command jps. I see this:
15955 NodeManager
16011 Jps
15660 SecondaryNameNode
15453 NameNode
15854 ResourceManager
My ultimate aim is to copy files into the HDFS from my local filesystem. For doing so, I run the command hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal /source-file-path/filename /destination-file-path/. I get the following error:
17/07/10 17:09:00 WARN hdfs.DataStreamer: DataStreamer Exception
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.io.IOException): File /pay/txnlinking/redshift.yml._COPYING_ could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 0 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation.
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockManager.chooseTarget4NewBlock(BlockManager.java:1733)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirWriteFileOp.chooseTargetForNewBlock(FSDirWriteFileOp.java:265)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:2496)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.addBlock(NameNodeRpcServer.java:828)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:506)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:447)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:989)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$RpcCall.run(Server.java:845)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$RpcCall.run(Server.java:788)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1807)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2455)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getRpcResponse(Client.java:1481)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1427)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:1337)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:227)
at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Invoker.invoke(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:116)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy10.addBlock(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.addBlock(ClientNamenodeProtocolTranslatorPB.java:440)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:398)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:163)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:155)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invokeOnce(RetryInvocationHandler.java:95)
at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:335)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy11.addBlock(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DataStreamer.locateFollowingBlock(DataStreamer.java:1733)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DataStreamer.nextBlockOutputStream(DataStreamer.java:1536)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DataStreamer.run(DataStreamer.java:658)
copyFromLocal: File /pay/txnlinking/redshift.yml._COPYING_ could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 0 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation.
How to avoid the above error and copy files into the HDFS?
P.S: I created the destination path folders in HDFS explicitly before doing the copy.

Answer 1

Do
hadoop namenode -format
then stop all services using
stop-all.sh
then restart all services using
start-all.sh
start-all.sh and stop-all.sh are deprecated use start-dfs.sh and stop-dfs.sh instead

Answer 2

First delete the contents of the hadoop.tmp.dir folder that you specified in core-site.xml. Then do a namenode format using hdfs namenode -format. Your datanode should be up and running properly after which all the copy operations will be successfully executed.