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Unable to start ambari server as non root user after fresh installation

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Not able to start ambari server as non root user (ambari) after fresh installation.

[ambari@ambari ~]$ ambari-server start

Using python /usr/bin/python2.6

Starting ambari-server

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

Unable to check firewall status when starting without root privileges.

Please do not forget to disable or adjust firewall if needed

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....................

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.

As per log file the issue seems to be database connectivity, however, I am able to login to the database

[ambari@ambari ~]$ mysql -u ambari -p -h ambari.localdomain

Enter password:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 114 Server version: 5.7.17 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates.Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> select current_user();

+---------------------------+

| current_user() |

+---------------------------+

| ambari@ambari.localdomain |

+---------------------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Please advise.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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Thanks for the quick response. The issue was with the password in /etc/ambari-server/conf/password.dat file.

There are couple of follow up questions:

1) While setting up ambari server it didn't allowed me to enter any special character.

Enter Database Password (bigdata):

Invalid characters in password. Use only alphanumeric or _ or - characters

Enter Database Password (bigdata):

2) After successfully starting ambari server is ambari-server.log file is filling up with errors. As log file is continuously growing up with errors I am uploading the log file.

[ambari@ambari ~]$ ambari-server start

Using python /usr/bin/python2.6

Starting ambari-server

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

Unable to check firewall status when starting without root privileges.

Please do not forget to disable or adjust firewall if needed

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....................

Ambari Server 'start' completed successfully.

3) Even after stopping ambari server I see that log file is filling up.

[ambari@ambari ~]$ ambari-server stop

Using python /usr/bin/python2.6

Stopping ambari-server

Ambari Server is not running

[ambari@ambari ~]$ ambari-server status

Using python /usr/bin/python2.6

Ambari-server status

Ambari Server not running.

Stale PID File at: /var/run/ambari-server/ambari-server.pid

[ambari@ambari ~]$ ps -ef|grep ambari

root 2223 1928 0 11:30 pts/1 00:00:00 su - ambari ambari 2224 2223 0 11:30 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash ambari 2735 1 0 12:02 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh -c ulimit -n 10000 ; /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_40/bin/java -server -XX:NewRatio=3 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60 -Dsun.zip.disableMemoryMapping=true -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/etc/ambari-server/conf/krb5JAASLogin.conf -Djava.security.krb5.conf=/etc/krb5.conf -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -cp /etc/ambari-server/conf:/usr/lib/ambari-server/*:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java-5.1.17.jar org.apache.ambari.server.controller.AmbariServer > /var/log/ambari-server/ambari-server.out 2>&1 || echo $? > /var/run/ambari-server/ambari-server.exitcode & ambari 2736 2735 28 12:02 pts/1 00:03:30 /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_40/bin/java -server -XX:NewRatio=3 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60 -Dsun.zip.disableMemoryMapping=true -Xms512m -Xmx2048m -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/etc/ambari-server/conf/krb5JAASLogin.conf -Djava.security.krb5.conf=/etc/krb5.conf -Djavax.security.auth.useSubjectCredsOnly=false -cp /etc/ambari-server/conf:/usr/lib/ambari-server/*:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java-5.1.17.jar org.apache.ambari.server.controller.AmbariServer ambari 2899 2224 0 12:14 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -ef ambari 2900 2224 0 12:14 pts/1 00:00:00 grep ambari

Please advise.

Thank you,

Sachin A

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Contributor

Do I need to rerun below command with mysql-connector-java for version 5.1.40 or just unlink the existing one and redirect to the new mysql-connector-java.jar?

ambari-server setup --jdbc-db=mysql --jdbc-driver=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar

Please advise.

Thank you,

Sachin A

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you can re-run the command with new JDBC driver

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Thanks for your quick response. Your solution worked. Now there are no errors in ambari-server.log file.

Thank you,

Sachin A

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@Sachin Ambardekar

Thats good to hear. can you mark one of my comment/answer as correct answer please?

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@Sachin Ambardekar

looks like you have accepted question itself as answer. please select correct answer.