https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/failure-in-starting-zookeeper-service/m-p/127406#M90121 <P>I installed HDP 2.5 successufully on 10 hosts with Centos 7, but I can't start zookeeper service. I have three zookeeper server installed and 10 zookeeper clients. I get the following error</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="13011-zookeeper.png" style="width: 814px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22599iB496EA413584219B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="13011-zookeeper.png" alt="13011-zookeeper.png" /></span></P><PRE>stderr: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/ZOOKEEPER/3.4.5/package/scripts/zookeeper_server.py", line 189, in &lt;module&gt; ZookeeperServer().execute() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/script/script.py", line 280, in execute method(env) File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/ZOOKEEPER/3.4.5/package/scripts/zookeeper_server.py", line 56, in start self.configure(env, upgrade_type=upgrade_type) File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/ZOOKEEPER/3.4.5/package/scripts/zookeeper_server.py", line 51, in configure zookeeper(type='server', upgrade_type=upgrade_type) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_commons/os_family_impl.py", line 89, in thunk return fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/ZOOKEEPER/3.4.5/package/scripts/zookeeper.py", line 42, in zookeeper conf_select.select(params.stack_name, "zookeeper", params.current_version) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/functions/conf_select.py", line 315, in select shell.checked_call(_get_cmd("set-conf-dir", package, version), logoutput=False, quiet=False, sudo=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/shell.py", line 71, in inner result = function(command, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/shell.py", line 93, in checked_call tries=tries, try_sleep=try_sleep) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/shell.py", line 141, in _call_wrapper result = _call(command, **kwargs_copy) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/shell.py", line 294, in _call raise Fail(err_msg) resource_management.core.exceptions.Fail: Execution of 'ambari-python-wrap /usr/bin/conf-select set-conf-dir --package zookeeper --stack-version 2.5.0.0-1245 --conf-version 0' returned 1. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/conf-select", line 178, in &lt;module&gt; setConfDir(options.pname, options.sver, options.cver) File "/usr/bin/conf-select", line 136, in setConfDir raise Exception("Expected confdir %s to be a symlink." % confdir) Exception: Expected confdir /usr/hdp/2.5.0.0-1245/zookeeper/conf to be a symlink. stdout: 2017-02-26 22:55:17,520 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.5.0.0-1245 2017-02-26 22:55:17,522 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.5.0.0-1245/0 2017-02-26 22:55:17,524 - call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'create-conf-dir', '--package', 'hadoop', '--stack-version', '2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,565 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.5.0.0-1245/0 exist already', '') 2017-02-26 22:55:17,566 - checked_call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'set-conf-dir', '--package', 'hadoop', '--stack-version', '2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,603 - checked_call returned (0, '') 2017-02-26 22:55:17,604 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure 2017-02-26 22:55:17,604 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf 2017-02-26 22:55:17,805 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.5.0.0-1245 2017-02-26 22:55:17,807 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.5.0.0-1245/0 2017-02-26 22:55:17,809 - call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'create-conf-dir', '--package', 'hadoop', '--stack-version', '2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,848 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.5.0.0-1245/0 exist already', '') 2017-02-26 22:55:17,849 - checked_call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'set-conf-dir', '--package', 'hadoop', '--stack-version', '2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,885 - checked_call returned (0, '') 2017-02-26 22:55:17,886 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure 2017-02-26 22:55:17,886 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf 2017-02-26 22:55:17,887 - Group['livy'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,889 - Group['spark'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,889 - Group['zeppelin'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,889 - Group['hadoop'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,890 - Group['users'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,890 - Group['knox'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,890 - User['hive'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,891 - User['storm'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,892 - User['infra-solr'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,892 - User['zookeeper'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,893 - User['atlas'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,894 - User['oozie'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'users']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,895 - User['ams'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,896 - User['falcon'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'users']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,896 - User['tez'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'users']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,897 - User['zeppelin'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,898 - User['accumulo'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,898 - User['livy'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,899 - User['mahout'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,900 - User['spark'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,900 - User['ambari-qa'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'users']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,901 - User['flume'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,902 - User['kafka'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,902 - User['hdfs'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,903 - User['sqoop'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,904 - User['yarn'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,905 - User['hbase'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,905 - User['hcat'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,906 - User['mapred'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,907 - User['knox'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,907 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,909 - Execute['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh ambari-qa /tmp/hadoop-ambari-qa,/tmp/hsperfdata_ambari-qa,/home/ambari-qa,/tmp/ambari-qa,/tmp/sqoop-ambari-qa'] {'not_if': '(test $(id -u ambari-qa) -gt 1000) || (false)'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,916 - Skipping Execute['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh ambari-qa /tmp/hadoop-ambari-qa,/tmp/hsperfdata_ambari-qa,/home/ambari-qa,/tmp/ambari-qa,/tmp/sqoop-ambari-qa'] due to not_if 2017-02-26 22:55:17,916 - Directory['/tmp/hbase-hbase'] {'owner': 'hbase', 'create_parents': True, 'mode': 0775, 'cd_access': 'a'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,917 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,918 - Execute['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh hbase /home/hbase,/tmp/hbase,/usr/bin/hbase,/var/log/hbase,/tmp/hbase-hbase'] {'not_if': '(test $(id -u hbase) -gt 1000) || (false)'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,924 - Skipping Execute['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh hbase /home/hbase,/tmp/hbase,/usr/bin/hbase,/var/log/hbase,/tmp/hbase-hbase'] due to not_if 2017-02-26 22:55:17,924 - Group['hdfs'] {} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,925 - User['hdfs'] {'fetch_nonlocal_groups': True, 'groups': [u'hadoop', u'hdfs']} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,925 - FS Type: 2017-02-26 22:55:17,925 - Directory['/etc/hadoop'] {'mode': 0755} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,939 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-env.sh'] {'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,939 - Directory['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/hadoop_java_io_tmpdir'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 01777} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,954 - Execute[('setenforce', '0')] {'not_if': '(! which getenforce ) || (which getenforce &amp;&amp; getenforce | grep -q Disabled)', 'sudo': True, 'only_if': 'test -f /selinux/enforce'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,962 - Skipping Execute[('setenforce', '0')] due to not_if 2017-02-26 22:55:17,962 - Directory['/var/log/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'create_parents': True, 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0775, 'cd_access': 'a'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,965 - Directory['/var/run/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'create_parents': True, 'group': 'root', 'cd_access': 'a'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,965 - Changing owner for /var/run/hadoop from 1018 to root 2017-02-26 22:55:17,965 - Changing group for /var/run/hadoop from 1004 to root 2017-02-26 22:55:17,966 - Directory['/tmp/hadoop-hdfs'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'create_parents': True, 'cd_access': 'a'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,971 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/commons-logging.properties'] {'content': Template('commons-logging.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,973 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/health_check'] {'content': Template('health_check.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,974 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/log4j.properties'] {'content': ..., 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0644} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,989 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties'] {'content': Template('hadoop-metrics2.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,990 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/task-log4j.properties'] {'content': StaticFile('task-log4j.properties'), 'mode': 0755} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,991 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/configuration.xsl'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop'} 2017-02-26 22:55:17,997 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_mappings.data'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'content': Template('topology_mappings.data.j2'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'group': 'hadoop'} 2017-02-26 22:55:18,001 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_script.py'] {'content': StaticFile('topology_script.py'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'mode': 0755} 2017-02-26 22:55:18,256 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/zookeeper/2.5.0.0-1245/0 2017-02-26 22:55:18,258 - call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'create-conf-dir', '--package', 'zookeeper', '--stack-version', u'2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1} 2017-02-26 22:55:18,293 - call returned (1, '/etc/zookeeper/2.5.0.0-1245/0 exist already', '') 2017-02-26 22:55:18,293 - checked_call[('ambari-python-wrap', u'/usr/bin/conf-select', 'set-conf-dir', '--package', 'zookeeper', '--stack-version', u'2.5.0.0-1245', '--conf-version', '0')] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False} Command failed after 1 tries </PRE><P>zookeeper client started successfully on all nodes. Zookeeper server failed on the three nodes.</P><P>I tried this command on the three server nodes</P><PRE>ln -s /etc/zookeeper/2.5.0.0-1245/0 /usr/hdp/2.5.0.0-1245/zookeeper/conf</PRE><P>but the same error still exists.</P> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:59:39 GMT shadi 2019-08-19T09:59:39Z