hey smark , i am having Matthew's same problem but his fix didn't work with me    when i tried  service cloudera-scm-server-db start the output was :    Creating DB navms for role NAVIGATORMETASERVER waiting for server to start.... done server started psql: could not connect to server: Connection timed out Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 7432? waiting for server to shut down..... done server stopped Unable to create database role navms, giving up waiting for server to start..... done server started   its status :    pg_ctl: server is running (PID: 3808) /usr/bin/postgres "-D" "/var/lib/cloudera-scm-server-db/data"     but when i tried to turn the server on : service cloudera-scm-server start   it says server running [ok] but when i get its status after a while i found it dead    service cloudera-scm-server status cloudera-scm-server dead but pid file exists   My log error is same as the above  ... View more

Glad to hear it, thanks for the followup! ... View more

Ok great. I restarted all MapReduce and Hbase daemons in addition to the HDFS daemons and it is working properly now. Thank you!   Previously I had only restarted HDFS. ... View more

Please check softlink on /etc/alternatives/ make sure they are pointing to correct hadoop config in /etc/hadoop/conf/core-site.xml etc. deploying client config from CM also helps to resolve all the softlinks ... View more