https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/failure-in-starting-zookeeper-service/m-p/127407#M90122 <P>Seems like a symlink issue. Can you post the content of</P><PRE>ls -l /usr/hdp/2.5.0.0-1245/zookeeper/conf </PRE><P>It should have permissions like</P><PRE>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root </PRE><P>Also, to be safe can you run the ln command on all the hosts manually once. Make sure the permissions are also correct.</P> Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:20:22 GMT namaheshwari 2017-02-27T06:20:22Z