@prabhat The error seems misleading as per my experience but I would like to check the ownership and permission on the directory /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/ this should be like below:
ll /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/ | grep -i hdfs
drwxr-x--x. 3 hdfs hdfs 420 Jun 26 15:18 1805-hdfs-DATANODE
drwxr-x--x. 4 httpfs httpfs 360 Jun 26 15:18 1806-hdfs-HTTPFS
drwxr-x--x. 3 hdfs hdfs 420 Jun 26 15:30 1857-hdfs-DATANODE
drwxr-x--x. 4 httpfs httpfs 360 Jun 26 15:30 1858-hdfs-HTTPFS
drwxr-x--x. 3 hdfs hdfs 420 Jun 26 16:40 1902-hdfs-DATANODE
drwxr-x--x. 4 httpfs httpfs 360 Jun 26 16:40 1903-hdfs-HTTPFS
If the you there is permission issue then fix them else you can try to hard start agent once and see how this goes.
Cheers!
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