https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Help-with-HDF-install-setup/m-p/189118#M80436 <P>ah, i think i figured it out, used the hostname -f command to get the host, and that did the trick, used that as the hostname. on my way now!</P> Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:07:47 GMT ronlabau 2018-07-10T02:07:47Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Help-with-HDF-install-setup/m-p/189117#M80435 <P>Hi, I'm new to Hortonworks and HDF, really excited to use the product, aiming to use nifi.</P><P>Went through the standard server setup here: <A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.1.2/bk_installing-hdf/content/ch_install-ambari.html" target="_blank">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.1.2/bk_installing-hdf/content/ch_install-ambari.html</A></P><P>I got my ubuntu 16 server running, and logged into ambari. I launched the install wizard, but i'm stuck on the cluster install/setup (<A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.1.2/bk_installing-hdf/content/ch_install-hdf.html" target="_blank">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.1.2/bk_installing-hdf/content/ch_install-hdf.html</A>)</P><P>i just put 'localhost' in my Target hosts, also tried localhost.localdomain but same error below, hosts file looks like this:</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">127.0.0.1 localhost</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;"># The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">fe00::0 ip6-localnet</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">ff02::1 ip6-allnodes</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">ff02::2 ip6-allrouters</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;">ff02::3 ip6-allhosts</P><P>copied the id_rsa key from server to a local file so i could add to Host registration information, also made sure i did the ssh keygen and added to authorized keys.</P><P>Changed my user account to ubuntu.</P><P>But when i run the install it fails with a bunch of "Connection to localhost closed" messages:</P><PRE>========================== Creating target directory... ========================== Command start time 2018-07-09 16:30:08 Connection to localhost closed. SSH command execution finished host=localhost, exitcode=0 Command end time 2018-07-09 16:30:08 ========================== Copying ambari sudo script... ========================== Command start time 2018-07-09 16:30:08 scp /var/lib/ambari-server/ambari-sudo.sh host=localhost, exitcode=0 Command end time 2018-07-09 16:30:09 ========================== Copying common functions script... ========================== Command start time 2018-07-09 16:30:09 scp /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_commons host=localhost, exitcode=0 Command end time 2018-07-09 16:30:09</PRE><P>Must be something in the setup i didn't do right, also not the most adept linux/ubuntu person.</P><P>Thanks for any help, </P><P>Ron</P> Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:16:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Help-with-HDF-install-setup/m-p/189117#M80435 ronlabau 2026-04-21T12:16:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Help-with-HDF-install-setup/m-p/189118#M80436 <P>ah, i think i figured it out, used the hostname -f command to get the host, and that did the trick, used that as the hostname. on my way now!</P> Tue, 10 Jul 2018 02:07:47 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Help-with-HDF-install-setup/m-p/189118#M80436 ronlabau 2018-07-10T02:07:47Z