https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Spark-Shell-does-not-start/m-p/318634#M227509 <P>I think in my case the issue was with multiple version of java. I dont remember exactly its been a while</P> Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:19:31 GMT hadoopNoob 2021-06-15T12:19:31Z