https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Ambari-Setup-JAVA-HOME-Error/m-p/215687#M177597 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/81270/khsabarish.html" nodeid="81270">@Sabarigirivasan Kuttuva </A></P><P>Your java.home set inside the ambari.properties is incorrect. It is pointing to the "java" file instead of pointing to the directory where the JDK is installed</P><PRE>java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.el7_5.ppc64le/jre/bin/java</PRE><P>.</P><P>Can you please try this path:</P><PRE>java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.el7_5.ppc64le</PRE><P>.</P><P>Please check if your PATH contains the "bin" directory as following:</P><PRE># ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.el7_5.ppc64le/bin/java</PRE><P>Java home is a directory up t; the directory where the "bin" is present.</P><P><STRONG>Example:</STRONG></P><PRE># grep 'java.home' /etc/ambari-server/conf/ambari.properties java.home=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112 stack.java.home=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112 [root@latest1 ~]# ls -l /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112 total 25916 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2016 bin -r--r--r--. 1 root root 3244 Sep 23 2016 COPYRIGHT drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Sep 23 2016 db drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Sep 23 2016 include -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5094021 Sep 22 2016 javafx-src.zip drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Sep 23 2016 jre drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Sep 23 2016 lib -r--r--r--. 1 root root 40 Sep 23 2016 LICENSE drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 44 Sep 23 2016 man -r--r--r--. 1 root root 159 Sep 23 2016 README.html -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 526 Sep 23 2016 release -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 21112816 Sep 23 2016 src.zip -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 110114 Sep 22 2016 THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME-JAVAFX.txt -r--r--r--. 1 root root 177094 Sep 23 2016 THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt</PRE><P>.</P> Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:38:14 GMT jsensharma 2018-06-07T12:38:14Z