Hello All,

New to pretty much everything here, so please excuse my rookie-level explanation of my issue.

I've tried twice now to prepare a Cloudera instance using different sets of hardware for each attempt. Each time I attempt to complete the installation, I'm met with this zookeeper error (when it tries to run $> zookeeper/zk.sh ["init","--myid=1","ignoreExists"]:

Error found before invoking supervisord: 'getpwnam(): name not found: zookeeper'

As a result, nothing else starts. 

The screen I'm working from is the "Cluster Setup - First Run Command" using Cloudera Manager. I've configured the "cloudera-scm" user as I don't run anything as root using this guide:

https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/install_singleuser_reqts.html#xd_583...

I'm following Install Path A using the guide here:

https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_ig_install_path_a.html

Near as I can tell, this is because the zookeeper user does not exist. I don't recall seeing a place to create this user during the install. I have saved all screenshots from my installation so I can reference those if you need them.

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!