@krb,   What you provided appears to be an agent log message that indicates an attempt to kinit with the HTTP principal on the host where HTTPFS role runs was not successful.  Check on the host where the httpfs role runs and make sure the krb5.conf file is correct.  This shoud not impact HDFS as a whole since HTTPFS is a client of HDFS really.   Cloudera Manager should merge the HTTP principal automatically, so please run the following to make sure the keytab has the right keys:   # klist -kte /run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/1330-hdfs-HTTPFS/httpfs.keytab     ... View more

>When you mention you are seeing the same problem, does the solution not work for yhou?    yum will not work on ubuntu right? so i need to know the corresponding apt-get commands to do this.   i would like clear instructions so that i delete only a particular version without disturbing the other version.   >When using parcels with Cloudera Manager, it is possible to have many different parcels distributed in the cluster. > Are you using parcels or packages for CDH?  Could you explain what steps you attempted to use to upgrade or >what guide you followed?   I used packages. as in :  http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/cm_ig_install_path_b.html   During the install it failed a few times due to various reasons. so in those few days of various attempts, i guess that the latest version changed and i wound up with two versions on a host. ... View more

You are unfortunately impacted by a limitation described at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5796 You will need to use a custom filter class to avoid this (i.e. to auth browsers separately from regular WebHDFS auth access, probably by checking UserAgent strings/etc.), by implementing a sub-class of https://github.com/cloudera/hadoop-common/blob/cdh5.4.4-release/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-auth/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/server/AltKerberosAuthenticationHandler.java Note that you can instead also opt to use the Hue File Browser, which is also more feature-rich in comparison. ... View more