Namenode not getting started

Question

I was using Hadoop in a pseudo-distributed mode and everything was working fine. But then I had to restart my computer because of some reason. And now when I am trying to st

Answer 1

In core-site.xml:

    
       
          fs.defaultFS
          hdfs://localhost:9000
       
       
          hadoop.tmp.dir
          /home/yourusername/hadoop/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}
         
  

and format of namenode with :

hdfs namenode -format

worked for hadoop 2.8.1