I have the same problem and I'm not sure that the problem is in ambari or kerberos, if you try this command rm -rf /var/lib/ambari-agent/cache/common-services/KERBEROS/1.10.3-10/package you will receive this error As Michael Young wrote in this post https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/64294/hortonworks-sandbox-vm-25-virtualbox-not-able-to-s.html. Inside VM run docker container. I assume that those directories where created by docker. And according to this post https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15314. Files or directories that were created by docker during image build process can't be deleted. I'm not sure that this is the issue but it looks like. I assume that the problem is in hdp 2.5 sandbox itself. Hope this would help smbd. , ... View more