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Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

MillerA — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:26:24 GMT

After following the steps that are found in the below link the following error happens.

Command:

sudo service cloudera-director-server start

Error message:
Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

When I review the java version

Command: echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_151

No errors took place during the install.

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

aarman — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:42:42 GMT

Which OS are you using? Also can you check the Director server log if it's present, it should be at /var/log/cloudera-director-server/application.log

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

MillerA — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:42:06 GMT

OS: Linux 7.2

That log file is not present

Here are the only files in that location

4 -rw-r--r--. 1 cloudera-director cloudera-director 307 Dec 6 23:17 cloudera-director-server.out

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

aarman — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:21:16 GMT

Any helpful information in cloudera-director-server.out ?

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

MillerA — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 06:13:33 GMT

The log file was empty.

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

MillerA — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 05:08:23 GMT

Issue was resolved with a reinstall of JAVA and then using the command: /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

Rajanikant — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:16:33 GMT

kindly install java

@MillerA wrote:
After following the steps that are found in the below link the following error happens.

Command:
sudo service cloudera-director-server start
Error message:
Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

When I review the java version
Command: echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_151

No errors took place during the install.

Re: Failed to start Cloudera Director Server. Return value: 3 [FAILED]

Rajanikant — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:19:03 GMT

Please install java and then start the director server.