Ambari Server java process died with exitcode -1.

[#1]

Hi,

I have installed ambari-server following this link

http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.1.2.0/bk_Installing_HDP_AMB/content/_download_the_...

Everything went well, except I am not able to start. I am getting the following response.

"p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; color: #f4f4f4; background-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85)} span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bc26} span.s2 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures} span.s3 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #5230e1}

ubuntu@ip-172-31-30-230:~$ sudo ambari-server start

Using python /usr/bin/python2.7

Starting ambari-server

Ambari Server running with administrator privileges.

About to start PostgreSQL

Organizing resource files at /var/lib/ambari-server/resources...

Server PID at: /var/run/ambari-server/ambari-server.pid

Server out at: /var/log/ambari-server/ambari-server.out

Server log at: /var/log/ambari-server/ambari-server.log

Waiting for server start....No passwd entry for user 'admin'

.....

ERROR: Exiting with exit code -1.

REASON: Ambari Server java process died with exitcode -1. Check /var/log/ambari-server/ambari-server.out for more information.

It says to check ambari-server.out where as this file was never created, but I do have ambari-server.log, but it doesn't have any exception or information. Please find below is the content of the log.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; color: #f4f4f4; background-color: #000000; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85)} span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures}

06 Nov 2016 09:45:25,915 INFO [main] Configuration:657 - Generation of file with password

06 Nov 2016 09:45:27,185 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

06 Nov 2016 09:45:28,281 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

06 Nov 2016 09:45:29,401 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

06 Nov 2016 09:45:30,555 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

06 Nov 2016 09:45:31,700 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

06 Nov 2016 09:45:32,331 INFO [main] ViewExtractor:82 - Creating archive folder /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/views/work/ADMIN_VIEW{2.1.2}.

06 Nov 2016 09:45:32,333 INFO [main] ViewExtractor:89 - Extracting files from ambari-admin-2.1.2.377.jar.

06 Nov 2016 09:45:33,035 INFO [main] Configuration:670 - Reading password from existing file

Please advice, thanks in advance!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Harish Gudella

Please try running your server in DEBUG bode by editing the following line :

sed -i.bak    's/^log4j.rootLogger=INFO,file/log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG,file/'    /etc/ambari-server/conf/log4j.properties

ambari-server restart

And then it should show more details of the failure in the ambari-server.log.

Also please let us know if you are running your ambari server is running as a "root" user or some other user?

[#3]

Thanks @jss! I found the issue. The issue was with user I am using. Thanks a lot for helping out.

Regards,

Harish