Ranger KMS Fails After Startup: Fixing JCE Illegal Key Size Errors

antonyshajin — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:20:54 GMT

I have HDP2.6, non-Kerberos cluster. I installed Ranger KMS. The service fails after startup. Can anyone direct me if I am missing anything?

2017-07-13 00:03:21,648 INFO log - ------------------ Ranger KMSWebApp--------------------- 2017-07-13 00:03:21,648 INFO log - provider string = dbks://http@localhost:9292/kms 2017-07-13 00:03:21,649 INFO log - URI = dbks://http@localhost:9292/kms scheme = dbks 2017-07-13 00:03:21,649 INFO log - kmsconf size= 225 kms classname=org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration 2017-07-13 00:03:21,649 INFO log - ----------------Instantiating key provider --------------- 2017-07-13 00:03:22,001 INFO RangerKeyStoreProvider - Credential keystore password not applied for KMS; clear text password shall be applicable 2017-07-13 00:03:22,002 ERROR RangerKMSDB - DB Flavor could not be determined 2017-07-13 00:03:23,133 INFO RangerKMSDB - Connected to DB : true 2017-07-13 00:03:23,136 INFO RangerMasterKey - Generating Master Key 2017-07-13 00:03:23,147 INFO AuditProviderFactory - ==> JVMShutdownHook.run() 2017-07-13 00:03:23,147 INFO AuditProviderFactory - JVMShutdownHook: Signalling async audit cleanup to start. 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - RangerAsyncAuditCleanup: Starting cleanup 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - JVMShutdownHook: Waiting up to 30 seconds for audit cleanup to finish. 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Stop called. name=kms.async 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Interrupting consumerThread. name=kms.async, consumer=kms.async.batch 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - RangerAsyncAuditCleanup: Done cleanup 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - RangerAsyncAuditCleanup: Waiting to audit cleanup start signal 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Caught exception in consumer thread. Shutdown might be in progress 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Exiting polling loop. name=kms.async 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Calling to stop consumer. name=kms.async, consumer.name=kms.async.batch 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - JVMShutdownHook: Audit cleanup finished after 1 milli seconds 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - JVMShutdownHook: Interrupting ranger async audit cleanup thread 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditProviderFactory - <== JVMShutdownHook.run() 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditBatchQueue - Stop called. name=kms.async.batch 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditBatchQueue - Interrupting consumerThread. name=kms.async.batch, consumer=kms.async.batch.solr 2017-07-13 00:03:23,148 INFO AuditAsyncQueue - Exiting consumerThread.run() method. name=kms.async 2017-07-13 00:03:23,149 INFO AuditBatchQueue - Caught exception in consumer thread. Shutdown might be in progress 2017-07-13 00:03:23,149 INFO AuditProviderFactory - RangerAsyncAuditCleanup: Interrupted while waiting for audit startCleanup signal! Exiting the thread... java.lang.InterruptedException at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.doAcquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:998) at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1304) at java.util.concurrent.Semaphore.acquire(Semaphore.java:312) at org.apache.ranger.audit.provider.AuditProviderFactory$RangerAsyncAuditCleanup.run(AuditProviderFactory.java:487) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) 2017-07-13 00:03:23,149 INFO AuditBatchQueue - Exiting consumerThread. Queue=kms.async.batch, dest=kms.async.batch.solr 2017-07-13 00:03:23,153 INFO AuditBatchQueue - Calling to stop consumer. name=kms.async.batch, consumer.name=kms.async.batch.solr

Re: Ranger KMS fails after startup

vperiasamy — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:17:03 GMT

See if you have any error in catalina.out

If the error is related to illegal key size, make sure unlimited strength JCE is installed in your JDK.

Re: Ranger KMS fails after startup

antonyshajin — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:50:04 GMT

Thank you so much, @vperiasamy

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