https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Getting-error-while-starting-hbase-process-in-Ambari/m-p/241111#M202915 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/102164/nihalshelke.html" nodeid="102164">@Nihal Shelke</A></P><P>As we see the error :</P><PRE> File "/usr/lib/ambari-agent/lib/resource_management/libraries/script/script.py", line 424, in post_start raise Fail("Pid file {0} doesn't exist after starting of the component.".format(pid_file))resource_management.core.exceptions.Fail: Pid file /var/run/hbase/hbase-hbase-master.pid doesn't exist after starting of the component.</PRE><P>.</P><P>So can you please check if you are able to <STRONG>create an Empty file with user "hbase"</STRONG> as following with the mentioned permission? And then try starting the HBase again.</P><PRE># su - hbase # ls -l /var/run/hbase/hbase-hbase-master.pid -rw-r--r--. 1 hbase hadoop 5 Dec 23 23:30 /var/run/hbase/hbase-hbase-master.pid</PRE><P>.</P><P>If you still face any issue then please try the following approach to start the HBase process and if it starts successfully Manually then next time you can try restarting it from Ambari UI and it should work.</P><PRE># su -l hbase -c "/usr/hdp/current/hbase-master/bin/hbase-daemon.sh start master; sleep 25"</PRE><P>.</P><P>See: </P><P><A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.4/bk_reference/content/starting_hdp_services.html" target="_blank">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.4/bk_reference/content/starting_hdp_services.html</A></P> Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:02:22 GMT jsensharma 2018-12-28T16:02:22Z