https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Not-able-to-start-zookeeper-while-installing-CDH-5-8-2-with/m-p/46444#M43870 <P>The issue was because the folder /var/lib/zookeeper was not owned by the user zookeeper. Once i change the owner of the folder to zookeeper it worked fine.</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:38:58 GMT akdiallo 2016-10-19T05:38:58Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Not-able-to-start-zookeeper-while-installing-CDH-5-8-2-with/m-p/46443#M43869 <P>While i was going through the CDH 5.8.2 installation i did get an issue with zookeeper. CM could not start it, i am getting a long message with the following error:&nbsp;</P><PRE>Unable to access datadir, exiting abnormally</PRE><P>Any clue?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks,<BR />Abdoul&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:44:44 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Not-able-to-start-zookeeper-while-installing-CDH-5-8-2-with/m-p/46443#M43869 akdiallo 2022-09-16T10:44:44Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Not-able-to-start-zookeeper-while-installing-CDH-5-8-2-with/m-p/46444#M43870 <P>The issue was because the folder /var/lib/zookeeper was not owned by the user zookeeper. Once i change the owner of the folder to zookeeper it worked fine.</P> Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:38:58 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Not-able-to-start-zookeeper-while-installing-CDH-5-8-2-with/m-p/46444#M43870 akdiallo 2016-10-19T05:38:58Z