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Expand Up @@ -331,6 +331,30 @@ <h2>Using EC2 for testing</h2>
might want a fast, dedicated server, or on Amazon EC2 large
(or better) instance.</p>

<h1>Common Problems and How to Solve Them</h1>

<h2>HDFS</h2>

<h3>Hadoop Filesystem Corruption: <code>InconsistentFSStateException</code></h2>
<p>
This might happen if you shut down all of of your Hadoop
namenodes and datanodes, and then try to bring them up again by doing:
<code>bin/hadoop namenode</code> and <code>bin/hadoop datanode</code>.
</p>

<p>
Here's a screenshot showing output from such a situation:
</p>

<a href="inconsistentfsstate.png"><img src="inconsistentfsstate.png"/></a>

<h4>Solution</h4>
<code>rm -rf /tmp/hadoop-$USER</code>

<h3>Hadoop Filesystem <code>'Incompatible build' errors at startup</code></h3>

<h4>Solution</h4>
<code>rm -rf /tmp/hadoop-$USER</code>

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