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Dombai_Gabor
Dombai_Gabor
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February 28, 2020
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YARN NodeManagers failed to start with permission issue after Kerberizaton in Cloudera Runtime 7.0.3

Dear Community,

 

After a successful installion of Cloudera Runtime 7.0.3, we tried to do a Kerberization process. (We did the same before with 5.14)

Everything went fine with the Kerberos wizard, but after in the config deployment phase, the YARN NodeManagers failed to start with the following error:

 

Error starting NodeManager
org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions.YarnRuntimeException: Failed to initialize container executor
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeManager.serviceInit(NodeManager.java:394)
at org.apache.hadoop.service.AbstractService.init(AbstractService.java:164)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeManager.initAndStartNodeManager(NodeManager.java:936)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeManager.main(NodeManager.java:1016)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Linux container executor not configured properly (error=-1)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.LinuxContainerExecutor.init(LinuxContainerExecutor.java:307)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeManager.serviceInit(NodeManager.java:392)
... 3 more
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.linux.privileged.PrivilegedOperationException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor": error=13, Permission denied
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.linux.privileged.PrivilegedOperationExecutor.executePrivilegedOperation(PrivilegedOperationExecutor.java:183)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.linux.privileged.PrivilegedOperationExecutor.executePrivilegedOperation(PrivilegedOperationExecutor.java:206)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.LinuxContainerExecutor.init(LinuxContainerExecutor.java:300)
... 4 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor": error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:938)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:901)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell$ShellCommandExecutor.execute(Shell.java:1213)
at org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.linux.privileged.PrivilegedOperationExecutor.executePrivilegedOperation(PrivilegedOperationExecutor.java:152)
... 6 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=13, Permission denied
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(Native Method)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:247)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:134)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1029)
... 10 more

 We tried to search the "answer" on the internet. We found that we should add the yarn user in the hadoop group.

 

[root@dwh20-i-cdhwt01 ~]# id yarn
uid=485(yarn) gid=984(yarn) groups=984(yarn),988(hadoop)

 

Nothing happened, the NodeManagers didn't start.

The container-executor script permission:

 

[root@dwh20-i-cdhwt01 ~]# ll /var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor
---Sr-s--- 1 root yarn 103968 Nov 19 12:34 /var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor

 

(Just for information, we didn't find container-executor config file on the NodeManagers.)

 

Please somebody help us. 🙂

Thanks.

 

Regards,

Gabor 

 

bgooley
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February 28, 2020

Hi @Dombai_Gabor ,

 

One possible cause of this issue is that the volume is mounted with "noexec".  Since your permissions and group membership seem correct, it is reasonable to check /etc/fstab to see if "noexec" is set where /var/ mounted.

 

Ben

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venkatsambath
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venkatsambath
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February 28, 2020

Can you share the result of 

ls -nl /var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor

This is to make sure the uid of yarn matches the uid on the container-executor

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Dombai_Gabor
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February 28, 2020

Yes! Here you are. 🙂

 

[root@dwh20-i-cdhwt01 ~]# ls -nl /var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor
---Sr-s--- 1 0 984 103968 Nov 19 12:34 /var/lib/yarn-ce/bin/container-executor

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bgooley
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bgooleyAnswer
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February 28, 2020

Hi @Dombai_Gabor ,

 

One possible cause of this issue is that the volume is mounted with "noexec".  Since your permissions and group membership seem correct, it is reasonable to check /etc/fstab to see if "noexec" is set where /var/ mounted.

 

Ben

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    Dombai_Gabor
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    February 28, 2020

    I checked it. Yes, the /var mount point has a noexec parameter. I turned off the cloudera services, edited the fstab, rebooted the hosts, but they dont boot now. 😞 

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    bgooley
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    bgooley
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    February 29, 2020

    @Dombai_Gabor,

     

    I'm sorry to hear that... I think you mean that the OS won't boot; if so, let us know what happens and perhaps we can help.  I'm not too familiar with debugging tactics of OS boot off hand, but others might be able to provide some insight.

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    soyoung
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    September 9, 2020

    I resolved this problem by running the 'usermod -G yarn yarn' command.

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    Hasib1971
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    February 7, 2026

    i have same issue after kerborous enable. But issue not belong to kerborous it is about container-executor can't open : permission denied.  Any better solution you have?

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    VidyaSargur
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    February 9, 2026

    @Hasib1971, Welcome to Cloudera Community. As this is an older post, you would have a better chance of receiving a resolution by starting a new thread. This will also be an opportunity to provide details specific to your environment that could aid others in assisting you with a more accurate answer to your question. You can link this thread as a reference in your new post.

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      February 14, 2026
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      February 14, 2026

      Hello @Hasib1971, 

      Are you still facing an issue or that was what solved your error? 
      If you still have an issue, please open a new thread so we can help you there. 

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