title: Unable to start daemons using start-dfs.sh
body: <p>We are using cdh4-0.0 distribution from cloudera. We are unable to start the daemons using the below command.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;start-dfs.sh
  Starting namenodes on [localhost]
  hduser@localhost's password: 
  localhost: mkdir: cannot create directory `/hduser': Permission denied
  localhost: chown: cannot access `/hduser/hduser': No such file or directory
  localhost: starting namenode, logging to /hduser/hduser/hadoop-hduser-namenode-canberra.out
  localhost: /home/hduser/work/software/cloudera/hadoop-2.0.0-cdh4.0.0/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh: line 150: /hduser/hduser/hadoop-hduser-namenode-canberra.out: No such file or directory
  localhost: head: cannot open `/hduser/hduser/hadoop-hduser-namenode-canberra.out' for reading: No such file or directory
  </code></pre>