https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Spark-Shell-does-not-start/m-p/54621#M3447 <P>For some strange reason I cant open ur screenshot .</P><P>could you paste the error in the Insert code tag.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Could you let me know if you had&nbsp;set your Java_home path &nbsp;and Spark_home ?&nbsp;</P><P>master and worker node status ?</P><P>what type of spark are you trying&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>Standalone - meaning Spark will manage its own cluster</LI><LI>YARN - using Hadoop's YARN resource manager</LI><LI>Mesos -&nbsp;</LI></UL><P>try this command &nbsp;- &nbsp;in your command line prompt&nbsp;</P><PRE>SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark<BR /><BR />or <BR /><BR />SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-shell</PRE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 11 May 2017 03:06:32 GMT csguna 2017-05-11T03:06:32Z