Reading through this blog helped me a lot: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/11/guidelines-for-installing-cdh-packages-on-unsupported-operating-systems/   Specially understanding that this can be a package mix/match issue because of trying to run YARN on a unsupported version (Ubuntu 16.04).   I removed package and reinstalled like this:   $> sudo apt-get remove zookeeper    this will remove a bunch of stuff along with zookeeper   $> sudo apt-get install hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager   this will reinstall resource manager for you.   Hope this helps! ... View more