> 1. Does the Cloudera manager express version support RPMs not parcels?  Is this expected behavior? Cloudera Manager supports parcels and RPMs, doesn't matter if it is express or enterprise. > 2. The cloudera manager is still express version - will moving to parcels from RPMs be allowed? Yes > 3. Will the uninstall packages step undo the parcel based install and activation? No. ... View more

Can you paste the contents of your /etc/hosts file? Also run this command on your CM host as well as hslave and paste the results here. # python -c "import socket; print socket.getfqdn(); print socket.gethostbyname(socket.getfqdn())" ... View more

Have a read if this page and let us know if you have any questions http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/core/latest/topics/cm_ig_migrating_packages_to_parcels.html ... View more

I just tried installing Cloudera Manager with the same steps on a new Ubuntu 14.04 host and it worked fine. Are you able to look into the files in /var/log/cloudera-manager-installation and see what might be the problem? You can post the problematic logs here as well and we can try to assist ... View more

sources.list contains repos for "trusty" whereas the earlier post was looking at wheezy-cdh5. So I am a bit confused here. How did you encounter the error message regarding Wheezy? ... View more

If you use Cloudera Manager, you can look at the list of hosts and try to recomission any nodes. If not, you need to look at the file pointed to by the dfs.hosts property and ensure the new IP address or host name is listed in it. Then as TGrayson mentioned, you should run sudo -u hdfs hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes" Let us know if it helped. ... View more

Could you show us the output of /etc/apt/sources.list please? ... View more

The message says it cannot find "contrib/binary-i386" which means the OS might be 32-bit. Are you able to show us the output of "uname -a"? ... View more