https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/PySpark-Error-initializing-SparkContext/m-p/51860#M23511 <P>By<SPAN>&nbsp;Spark 2.1 do you mean Cloudera Spark 2.0 Release 1 or Apache Spark 2.1 ?&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>Regarding&nbsp;Cloudera Spark 2.0 Release 1 or&nbsp;Release 2, I would like to tell that minimum required CDH version is <A href="https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/spark2/latest/topics/spark2_requirements.html#cdh_versions" target="_self">CDH 5.7.x</A>&nbsp;but you are on CDH 5.5.4.&nbsp;</SPAN></P> Tue, 07 Mar 2017 06:30:09 GMT _Umesh 2017-03-07T06:30:09Z