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History Server fails to start

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I deployed a cluster of 3 nodes with Ambari 2.4.0.1 and am unable to get the History Server started.

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/YARN/2.1.0.2.0/package/scripts/historyserver.py", line 190, in <module>
    HistoryServer().execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/script/script.py", line 280, in execute
    method(env)
  File "/var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/YARN/2.1.0.2.0/package/scripts/historyserver.py", line 101, in start
    host_sys_prepped=params.host_sys_prepped)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/functions/copy_tarball.py", line 257, in copy_to_hdfs
    replace_existing_files=replace_existing_files,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/base.py", line 155, in __init__
    self.env.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/environment.py", line 160, in run
    self.run_action(resource, action)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/core/environment.py", line 124, in run_action
    provider_action()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 459, in action_create_on_execute
    self.action_delayed("create")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 456, in action_delayed
    self.get_hdfs_resource_executor().action_delayed(action_name, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 255, in action_delayed
    self._create_resource()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 269, in _create_resource
    self._create_file(self.main_resource.resource.target, source=self.main_resource.resource.source, mode=self.mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 322, in _create_file
    self.util.run_command(target, 'CREATE', method='PUT', overwrite=True, assertable_result=False, file_to_put=source, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/resource_management/libraries/providers/hdfs_resource.py", line 192, in run_command
    raise Fail(err_msg)
resource_management.core.exceptions.Fail: Execution of 'curl -sS -L -w '%{http_code}' -X PUT --data-binary @/usr/hdp/2.5.3.0-37/hadoop/mapreduce.tar.gz 'http://test-1.c.i.internal:50070/webhdfs/v1/hdp/apps/2.5.3.0-37/mapreduce/mapreduce.tar.gz?op=CREATE&user.name=hdfs&overwrite=True&permission=444'' returned status_code=500.
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@vsubramanian - Can you verify if HDFS service was up when you tried to start History server, if yes was the Namenode out of Safemode. Another thing to check will be that /usr/hdp/2.5.3.0-37/hadoop/mapreduce.tar.gz exists, and that you are manually able to copy the file to HDFS.

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Sounds like I am hitting OutOfMemory errors:

2017-03-27 11:32:45,199 ERROR Error for /webhdfs/v1/hdp/apps/2.5.3.0-37/mapreduce/mapreduce.tar.gz java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.lang.String.toLowerCase(String.java:2590) at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.toLowerCase(StringUtils.java:1040) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.AuthFilter.toLowerCase(AuthFilter.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:82) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpServer2$QuotingInputFilter.doFilter(HttpServer2.java:1294) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:945) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:410) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)
2017-03-27 11:36:15,852 ERROR Error for /webhdfs/v1/hdp/apps/2.5.3.0-37/mapreduce/mapreduce.tar.gz java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Arrays.java:3664) at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:207) at java.lang.String.toLowerCase(String.java:2647) at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.toLowerCase(StringUtils.java:1040) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.AuthFilter.toLowerCase(AuthFilter.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.web.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:82) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpServer2$QuotingInputFilter.doFilter(HttpServer2.java:1294) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:945) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:410) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)

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@vsubramanian

The root cause of the failure is OOM on NameNode

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.lang.String.

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So i guess you will need to increase the -Xmx (Java Heap Size) of your NameNode.

NameNode heap size recommendations are mentioned in the following link: https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.5.3/bk_command-line-installation/content/ref-80...