https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Zeppelin-pyspark-is-not-responding/m-p/185671#M147778 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/76162/khouloudlanderi.html" nodeid="76162">@Khouloud Landari</A> The error message is very generic. To be able to further help you finding the solution please provide:</P><P> 1. Check /var/log/zeppelin/zeppelin-interpreter-spark2-spark-zeppelin-*.log - And copy the important pieces you consider worth sharing</P><P> 2. From zeppelin UI &gt; Interpreter &gt; Take screenshot of spark2 interpreter configuration and share - Also try restarting the interpreter and check if that helps or not.</P><P> 3. Run the following command from zeppelin host:</P><PRE>SPARK_MAJOR_VERSION=2 pyspark --master yarn --verbose</PRE><P> and copy the output you get in the console to this post</P><P> With this information we should be able to draw further conclusions as to what could be causing the issue. </P><P>Note: If you add a comment to this post please make sure you tag my name using @ and my name. This way I will be able to know you have updated with more information. </P> Tue, 08 May 2018 19:52:53 GMT falbani 2018-05-08T19:52:53Z