sadly, the logs for that particular day have been blown away.  the dangling symlink was the issue, as it was not pointing to the bigger storage device, and root store was probably getting full in the middle of the operation.   thanks for your help! ... View more

thank you for the hints.   the parcel directory looks ok to me, although two of the directories are owned by root rather than cloudera-scm.  however, making that in a symbolic link made the problem go away.  thanks!   root@ip-10-133-2-15:/opt# ls -l /opt/cloudera/parcel* /opt/cloudera/parcel-cache: total 4 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Aug 14 00:10 tmpYThWAd /opt/cloudera/parcel-repo: total 1687240 -rw-r----- 1 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 1726036186 Aug 13 21:47 CDH-5.1.0-1.cdh5.1.0.p0.53-precise.parcel -rw-r----- 1 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 41 Aug 13 21:47 CDH-5.1.0-1.cdh5.1.0.p0.53-precise.parcel.sha /opt/cloudera/parcels: total 0     ... View more