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HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:33:01 GMT

Dear Experts,

I installed HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) using a user nifi (group hadoop) under /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12

Starting/Stopping the nifi service from bash works fine.

Afterwards I installed the Ambari Service for Nifi as outlined on https://github.com/abajwa-hw/ambari-nifi-service

Unfortunately whenever I start Nifi under Ambari it goes down without showing an error in '/var/lib/ambari-agent/data/errors-xxxx.txt'

the stout of ambari looks like the following:

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stdout:
2016-01-30 10:31:01,040 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.3.4.0-3485
2016-01-30 10:31:01,040 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0
2016-01-30 10:31:01,040 - call['conf-select create-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,061 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0 exist already', '')
2016-01-30 10:31:01,062 - checked_call['conf-select set-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,082 - checked_call returned (0, '/usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hadoop/conf -> /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0')
2016-01-30 10:31:01,082 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure
2016-01-30 10:31:01,083 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf
2016-01-30 10:31:01,192 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.3.4.0-3485
2016-01-30 10:31:01,192 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0
2016-01-30 10:31:01,192 - call['conf-select create-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,214 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0 exist already', '')
2016-01-30 10:31:01,214 - checked_call['conf-select set-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,235 - checked_call returned (0, '/usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hadoop/conf -> /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0')
2016-01-30 10:31:01,235 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure
2016-01-30 10:31:01,235 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf
2016-01-30 10:31:01,237 - Group['hadoop'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,237 - Group['nifi'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,238 - Group['users'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,238 - User['zookeeper'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,238 - User['ams'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,239 - User['ambari-qa'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'users']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,239 - User['kafka'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,240 - User['hdfs'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,240 - User['yarn'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,241 - User['nifi'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,242 - User['mapred'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,242 - User['hbase'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,243 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,244 - 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)'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,248 - 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
2016-01-30 10:31:01,248 - Directory['/tmp/hbase-hbase'] {'owner': 'hbase', 'recursive': True, 'mode': 0775, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,249 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,250 - 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)'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,254 - 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
2016-01-30 10:31:01,254 - Group['hdfs'] {'ignore_failures': False}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,254 - User['hdfs'] {'ignore_failures': False, 'groups': [u'hadoop', u'hdfs']}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,255 - Directory['/etc/hadoop'] {'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,266 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-env.sh'] {'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,267 - Directory['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/hadoop_java_io_tmpdir'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0777}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,277 - Execute[('setenforce', '0')] {'not_if': '(! which getenforce ) || (which getenforce && getenforce | grep -q Disabled)', 'sudo': True, 'only_if': 'test -f /selinux/enforce'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,285 - Skipping Execute[('setenforce', '0')] due to only_if
2016-01-30 10:31:01,285 - Directory['/var/log/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'mode': 0775, 'group': 'hadoop', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,287 - Directory['/var/run/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'group': 'root', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,288 - Directory['/tmp/hadoop-hdfs'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,291 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/commons-logging.properties'] {'content': Template('commons-logging.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,292 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/health_check'] {'content': Template('health_check.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,293 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/log4j.properties'] {'content': ..., 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0644}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,300 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties'] {'content': Template('hadoop-metrics2.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,301 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/task-log4j.properties'] {'content': StaticFile('task-log4j.properties'), 'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,305 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_mappings.data'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'content': Template('topology_mappings.data.j2'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'group': 'hadoop'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,308 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_script.py'] {'content': StaticFile('topology_script.py'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,488 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/nifi.properties'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,491 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/bootstrap.conf'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,495 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/logback.xml'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,496 - Execute['echo pid file /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,498 - Execute['echo JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:01,501 - Execute['export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60;/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.sh start >> /var/log/nifi/nifi-setup.log'] {'user': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 10:31:04,558 - Execute['cat /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.pid | grep pid | sed 's/pid=\(\.*\)/\1/' > /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}
2016-01-30 10:31:04,567 - Execute['chown nifi:nifi /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}
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Again, when I start nifi from bash it works as expacted.

Any help on how to fix this or better trace the problem is highly appreciated!

br,

Rainer

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

aervits — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 20:06:09 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer please paste the nifi logs in n /var/log/nifi

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 21:35:35 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer

Couple of things:

1) Ambari service for NiFi is not officially released yet. You are using git code.

2) This is based on existing issue. I don't know how your setup looks like so you may want to check this.

In git code, user nifi is starting nifi ..make sure that nifi user has privilieges to write to /var/log

code link

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:04:16 GMT

Based on Neerjas comment below I enabled user nifi to write into /var/log/ ... no at least I am getting an error in the Ambari Console when starting the service that I attached in errors-1795.txt.

In addition I posted the logs of /var/log/nifi.

Again, when I am starting "nifi.sh start" from bash, nifi starts successfully.

Thanks, in advance, for any further advise.

br,

Rainer

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:05:23 GMT

Hi Neeray, thanks for your feedback ... I am now getting more detailed logs ... even though the problem didn't go aways, please see above. Thanks, Rainer

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

aervits — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:25:03 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer create directory /var/run/nifi and make sure permissions are set correctly on the directory

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:40:58 GMT

I did that already in order to trick Ambari after starting nifi through bash (and then I inserted a valid PID in /var/run/nifi) and restarted the service through Amari. Obviously Ambari found that PID and got green ... but still no luck starting the service through Ambari 😞

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

aervits — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:42:17 GMT

Lets do one thing at a time. Stop the version initiated with bash. Clean up the pid and let Ambari start the service and watch for new errors. @Rainer Geissendoerfer

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:45:04 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer If you look deeply 😉 it's still permission issue. Make sure that you create directories for nifi user under /var/log, /var/run etc.

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:46:39 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer You can search git code to get an idea on directory structure

https://github.com/abajwa-hw/ambari-nifi-service/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%2Fvar%2F

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:51:11 GMT

I think I am messing up things here 🙂 ... I initially put the user nifi in the groop hadoop ... and did the nifi install ... as what it looks like ambari requires user "nifi" to be in group "nifi" ... I will start to change a couple of access rights and provide further feedback when it's done ...

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

rainer_geissend — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:22:09 GMT

OK ... here is where I am ... I changed my primary group of user nifi to nifi ... i stopped nifi through "nifi.sh stop"

I cleared /var/log/nifi and /var/run/nifi

when I start nifi now from ambari there is nothing in stderr and I get the following feedback in ambari:

stderr: /var/lib/ambari-agent/data/errors-1806.txt

None

stdout: /var/lib/ambari-agent/data/output-1806.txt

2016-01-30 16:31:57,093 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.3.4.0-3485
2016-01-30 16:31:57,094 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0
2016-01-30 16:31:57,094 - call['conf-select create-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,115 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0 exist already', '')
2016-01-30 16:31:57,115 - checked_call['conf-select set-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,135 - checked_call returned (0, '/usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hadoop/conf -> /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0')
2016-01-30 16:31:57,136 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure
2016-01-30 16:31:57,136 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf
2016-01-30 16:31:57,244 - The hadoop conf dir /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf exists, will call conf-select on it for version 2.3.4.0-3485
2016-01-30 16:31:57,244 - Checking if need to create versioned conf dir /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0
2016-01-30 16:31:57,245 - call['conf-select create-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False, 'stderr': -1}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,265 - call returned (1, '/etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0 exist already', '')
2016-01-30 16:31:57,266 - checked_call['conf-select set-conf-dir --package hadoop --stack-version 2.3.4.0-3485 --conf-version 0'] {'logoutput': False, 'sudo': True, 'quiet': False}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,286 - checked_call returned (0, '/usr/hdp/2.3.4.0-3485/hadoop/conf -> /etc/hadoop/2.3.4.0-3485/0')
2016-01-30 16:31:57,287 - Ensuring that hadoop has the correct symlink structure
2016-01-30 16:31:57,287 - Using hadoop conf dir: /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf
2016-01-30 16:31:57,288 - Group['hadoop'] {}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,289 - Group['nifi'] {}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,289 - Group['users'] {}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,289 - User['zookeeper'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,290 - User['ams'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,290 - User['ambari-qa'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'users']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,291 - User['kafka'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,291 - User['hdfs'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,292 - User['yarn'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,292 - User['nifi'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,293 - User['mapred'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,293 - User['hbase'] {'gid': 'hadoop', 'groups': [u'hadoop']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,294 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,295 - 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)'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,299 - 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
2016-01-30 16:31:57,299 - Directory['/tmp/hbase-hbase'] {'owner': 'hbase', 'recursive': True, 'mode': 0775, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,300 - File['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/changeUid.sh'] {'content': StaticFile('changeToSecureUid.sh'), 'mode': 0555}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,300 - 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)'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,304 - 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
2016-01-30 16:31:57,304 - Group['hdfs'] {'ignore_failures': False}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,305 - User['hdfs'] {'ignore_failures': False, 'groups': [u'hadoop', u'hdfs']}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,305 - Directory['/etc/hadoop'] {'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,317 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-env.sh'] {'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,317 - Directory['/var/lib/ambari-agent/tmp/hadoop_java_io_tmpdir'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0777}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,328 - Execute[('setenforce', '0')] {'not_if': '(! which getenforce ) || (which getenforce && getenforce | grep -q Disabled)', 'sudo': True, 'only_if': 'test -f /selinux/enforce'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,335 - Skipping Execute[('setenforce', '0')] due to only_if
2016-01-30 16:31:57,335 - Directory['/var/log/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'mode': 0775, 'group': 'hadoop', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,337 - Directory['/var/run/hadoop'] {'owner': 'root', 'group': 'root', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,337 - Directory['/tmp/hadoop-hdfs'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'recursive': True, 'cd_access': 'a'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,341 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/commons-logging.properties'] {'content': Template('commons-logging.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,342 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/health_check'] {'content': Template('health_check.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,343 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/log4j.properties'] {'content': ..., 'owner': 'hdfs', 'group': 'hadoop', 'mode': 0644}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,350 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties'] {'content': Template('hadoop-metrics2.properties.j2'), 'owner': 'hdfs'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,350 - File['/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/conf/task-log4j.properties'] {'content': StaticFile('task-log4j.properties'), 'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,354 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_mappings.data'] {'owner': 'hdfs', 'content': Template('topology_mappings.data.j2'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'group': 'hadoop'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,357 - File['/etc/hadoop/conf/topology_script.py'] {'content': StaticFile('topology_script.py'), 'only_if': 'test -d /etc/hadoop/conf', 'mode': 0755}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,536 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/nifi.properties'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,539 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/bootstrap.conf'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,543 - File['/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/logback.xml'] {'owner': 'nifi', 'content': InlineTemplate(...), 'group': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,543 - Execute['echo pid file /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,546 - Execute['echo JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60'] {}
2016-01-30 16:31:57,549 - Execute['export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60;/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.sh start >> /var/log/nifi/nifi-setup.log'] {'user': 'nifi'}
2016-01-30 16:32:00,606 - Execute['cat /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.pid | grep pid | sed 's/pid=\(\.*\)/\1/' > /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}
2016-01-30 16:32:00,625 - Execute['chown nifi:nifi /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid'] {}

Still though the service goes down after some green blinking ... when I am going to bash there is also no nifi service running ...

in /var/log/nifi there are 4 log files

nifi-app.log nifi-bootstrap.log nifi-setup.log nifi-user.log

---------------------------------------------------

[nifi@nifi1n1 nifi]$ cat /var/log/nifi/*

2016-01-30 17:10:40,677 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi No Bootstrap Notification Services configured.

2016-01-30 17:10:40,679 INFO [main] org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.Command Apache NiFi is not running

Java home: /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60

NiFi home: /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12

Bootstrap Config File: /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/conf/bootstrap.conf

[nifi@nifi1n1 nifi]$

----------------------------------------------------------

/var/run/nifi Directory is empty

Access Rights are set appropriately for /var/log/nifi and /var/run/nifi

[nifi@nifi1n1 log]$ ls -lisa /var/log | grep nifi

8621255 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 nifinifi 91 Jan 30 17:10 nifi

[nifi@nifi1n1 run]$ cd /var/run

[nifi@nifi1n1 run]$ ls -lisa | grep nifi

62714 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 nifi hadoop 40 Jan 30 17:11 nifi

if I execute

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60;/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.sh start >> /var/log/nifi/nifi-setup.log

from bash the service goes up.

... and I am getting crazy 🙂

Any Advise???

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:53:48 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer

You can try this

Delete the service

run this in ambari server

curl --user admin:admin -i -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X DELETE http://`hostname -f`:8080/api/v1/clusters/clustername/services/NIFI

cleanup everything under /var/log/nifi and /var/run/nifi

and try to add it back using Ambari after making sure that nifi directory exists under /var/log and /var/run with proper permissions

Wait for the official release of Amabri Service. 🙂

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

aervits — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 01:53:49 GMT

What group does /var/run/nifi belong to? @Rainer Geissendoerfer I suggest doing everything from scratch only with Ambari service and new copy of sandbox

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 02:04:45 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer You may have to run this before deleting in case delete complains

In Ambari server

curl --user admin:admin -i -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X PUT http://`hostname -f`:8080/api/v1/clusters/HDPTEST/services/NIFI -d '{"RequestInfo": {"context" :"Stop NIFI via REST"}, "Body": {"ServiceInfo": {"state": "INSTALLED"}}}'

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

abajwa — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 02:56:25 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer Others have encountered similar issues with the Nifi service (usually on Java 😎 as well but I have not been able to consistently reproduce it yet. From what I have seen of this issue, if you run the steps to start Nifi manually via CLI, it works (but for some reason not from Ambari). You can try below manual commands to start Nifi and populate the pid file so that Ambari can track its status:

su - nifi
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default
/opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.sh start >> /var/log/nifi/nifi-setup.log
cat /opt/nifi-1.1.1.0-12/bin/nifi.pid | grep pid | sed 's/pid=\(\.*\)/\1/' > /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid
#run below as root
chown nifi:nifi /var/run/nifi/nifi.pid

If you are encountering the same issue, could you provide the below details so we can try to reproduce it:

java version
OS/version
Ambari + HDP version (is this sandbox?)
are you installing Nifi service on same node as Ambari?

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

henrysowell — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:20:13 GMT

I've experienced the same issue on three different installs, Centos 6 & 6.5, Java 8, HDP 2.3.2 & 2.3.4, sandbox and cluster. On the clusters I was installing NiFi on a separate node.

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 08:53:26 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer

I am experiencing the same issue in my cluster. I chose to stick with manual setup and wait for the offical release of ambari service.

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

abajwa — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:15:37 GMT

@Henry Sowell could you check that on the node where Nifi is setup, the java location Ambari is starting Nifi with (usually /usr/java/default) exists and has the appropriate version of java?

Re: HDF (nifi-1.1.1.0-12) doesn't start using ambari nifi service

nsabharwal — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:51:18 GMT

@Rainer Geissendoerfer Could you please accept the best the answer to close this thread?