I configured and deployed hadoop for single node setup via this tutorial.

Everything deployed fine, but when I do jps for have a look on active processes, datanode is not shown.

I manually tried to start datanode by going to $HADOOP_HOME/bin : hadoop -datanode, but to no avail.

Basically to sum up, datanode process is not running at all for the hadoop cluster.

Also, I want to know whether a single machine can have 2 hadoop installations. I am using one for mapreduce processes and another one for search engine. ? so their directory being different, is that okay ? also, I run a single hadoop operation at a time.

EDIT 1#:-
if this helps, here's the log when i tried running datanode via $HADOOP_HOME.

root@thinktank:/usr/local/hadoop/bin# hadoop datanode

Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated.



13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO datanode.DataNode: STARTUP_MSG: 

/************************************************************

STARTUP_MSG: Starting DataNode

STARTUP_MSG:   host = thinktank/127.0.1.1

STARTUP_MSG:   args = []

STARTUP_MSG:   version = 1.2.1

STARTUP_MSG:   build = https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-1.2 -r 1503152; compiled by 'mattf' on Mon Jul 22 15:23:09 PDT 2013  

STARTUP_MSG:   java = 1.6.0_27  

************************************************************/  

13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO impl.MetricsConfig: loaded properties from hadoop-metrics2.properties  

13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO impl.MetricsSourceAdapter: MBean for source   MetricsSystem,sub=Stats registered.  

13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: Scheduled snapshot period at 10 second(s).  

13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: DataNode metrics system started  

13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO impl.MetricsSourceAdapter: MBean for source ugi registered.  

13/08/27 16:34:57 WARN impl.MetricsSystemImpl: Source name ugi already exists!  

13/08/27 16:34:57 ERROR datanode.DataNode: java.io.IOException: Incompatible namespaceIDs in /app/hadoop/tmp/dfs/data: namenode namespaceID = 1955988395; datanode namespaceID =   1705269445

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataStorage.doTransition(DataStorage.java:232)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataStorage.recoverTransitionRead(DataStorage.java:147)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.startDataNode(DataNode.java:414)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.<init>(DataNode.java:321)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.makeInstance(DataNode.java:1712)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.instantiateDataNode(DataNode.java:1651)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.createDataNode(DataNode.java:1669)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.secureMain(DataNode.java:1795)

    at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.main(DataNode.java:1812)



13/08/27 16:34:57 INFO datanode.DataNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: 

/************************************************************

SHUTDOWN_MSG: Shutting down DataNode at thinktank/127.0.1.1

************************************************************/