Dear, I have the same issue when attempting to start cloudera-scm-server (See below). I use: CDH 6.1.1 java version "1.8.0_181" MariaDB 10.2.18 and permissions to /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar are set to 755   $ ll /usr/share/java/ total 984 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1004840 Jul 18 20:17 mysql-connector-java.jar   Could you help please ?   2019-07-18 21:29:33,456 WARN main:org.springframework.context.support.GenericApplicationContext: Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.cloudera.server.cmf.TrialState': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'entityManagerFactoryBean' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactoryBean': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to obtain CM release version. 2019-07-18 21:29:33,457 ERROR main:com.cloudera.server.cmf.Main: Server failed. org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.cloudera.server.cmf.TrialState': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'entityManagerFactoryBean' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactoryBean': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to obtain CM release version. at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:359) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:108) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.resolveConstructorArguments(ConstructorResolver.java:634) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:145) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1198) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1100) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:511) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:481) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:312) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:308) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:761) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:867) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:543) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.Main.bootstrapSpringContext(Main.java:415) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.Main.<init>(Main.java:258) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.Main.main(Main.java:231) Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactoryBean': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to obtain CM release version. at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:185) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.getObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:103) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getObjectForBeanInstance(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1640) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:254) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:351) ... 17 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to obtain CM release version. at com.cloudera.server.cmf.bootstrap.EntityManagerFactoryBean.getPersistedCmRelease(EntityManagerFactoryBean.java:311) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.bootstrap.EntityManagerFactoryBean.checkVersionDoFail(EntityManagerFactoryBean.java:358) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.bootstrap.EntityManagerFactoryBean.getObject(EntityManagerFactoryBean.java:172) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.bootstrap.EntityManagerFactoryBean.getObject(EntityManagerFactoryBean.java:75) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:178) ... 22 more Caused by: javax.persistence.NoResultException: No entity found for query at org.hibernate.query.internal.AbstractProducedQuery.getSingleResult(AbstractProducedQuery.java:1446) at com.cloudera.cmf.persist.DbVersionDao.getVersion(DbVersionDao.java:53) at com.cloudera.server.cmf.bootstrap.EntityManagerFactoryBean.getPersistedCmRelease(EntityManagerFactoryBean.java:307) ... 26 more ... 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