Thank you.  I had the same issue.  Should some content be added to the tutorial indicating that these services need to be started?   ... View more

I figured it had to do with history server but haven't dealt with this specifically. Never fear StackOverflow is here.0 The short is that the history server is enabled but the path it is trying to write to is not valid. Either give it a valid path or turn it off. I'd give it a valid path as it is how the UI contains all the wonderful information. spark.eventLog.enabled=true spark.eventLog.dir=/user/spark/applicationHistory (make sure it exist and the spark user as r/w access) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36038188/error-sparkcontext-error-initializing-sparkcontext ... View more