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Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

pardeep_kumar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:56:13 GMT

Re: Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

nsabharwal — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 04:41:54 GMT

@Pardeep You have to share hue logs. I have experienced the same behavior few times and best shot is to go through all the config checks and make sure that nothing is missing.

Click "Check for misconfiguration"

Re: Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

pardeep_kumar — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:48:31 GMT

It looks like, Hue could not bring up the new version.. Here is the script for pick up the versions.

/usr/lib/hue/tools/ fill_versions.sh

Please note that the script is only checked once, so the wrong information will not be updated automatically.

Here is the workaround. Go to /usr/lib/hue/ Move VERSIONS to VERSIONS.org then restart hue service.

service hue stop

cd /usr/lib/hue

mv VERSIONS VERSIONS.org

service hue start

Then, you can see the following message..

[root@sandbox hue]# service hue start
 Detecting versions of components...
 HUE_VERSION=2.6.1-3150
 HDP=2.2.8
 Hadoop=2.6.0
 Pig=0.14.0
 Hive-Hcatalog=0.14.0
 Oozie=4.1.0
 Ambari-server=2.1-377
 HBase=0.98.4
 Knox=0.5.0
 Storm=0.9.3
 Falcon=0.6.0
 Starting hue: [ OK ]

Once, done you will see correct Hue UI.

Re: Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

pardeep_kumar — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 10:17:31 GMT

"Check for misconfiguration" did not show any error. It was all OK. Wrote the solution below.

Re: Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

dgoodhand — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:14:28 GMT

Run the following commands:

cd /usr/lib/hue/tools

chmod 755 fill_versions.sh

vi fill_versions.sh

Comment out this line grep "^#FIXME" ${hue_dir}/VERSIONS &>/dev/null || exit

Save the file and restart Hue.

The versions will now look correct from what is installed via the repository Now fill_versions.sh will run when Hue starts populating the correct version everytime.

There is also an issue with rolling upgrades and this because Hue does a rpm and greps the first line for the hadoop version. I modified my fill_versions.sh script to use 'hadoop version' and then awk the result.

Re: Hue does not show components and versions on Web UI after upgrade. Below is the snapshot.

AnushaAkula — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:48:23 GMT

@Pardeep

It's been a while of the post.

I have been facing the same issue after I upgraded my hortonworks sandbox to HDP2.5. I tried the "mv VERSIONS VERSIONS.org" and restarted the hue but didn't work. I get the below when I restart

My HUE shows up below when re-started

Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!