https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/PySpark-Error-initializing-SparkContext/m-p/51861#M23512 It is apache spark 2.1<BR /><BR />One Reference used (similar to our situation) :<BR /><BR /><BR /><A href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/running-spark-2xx-cloudera-hadoop-distro-cdh-deenar-toraskar-cfa" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/running-spark-2xx-cloudera-hadoop-distro-cdh-deenar-toraskar-cfa</A><BR /><BR /> Tue, 07 Mar 2017 06:32:54 GMT Murthy 2017-03-07T06:32:54Z