I fixed it last week, i was using redhat 7.3 and was missing the libtripc-devel package. Below is what i did wget http://mirror.5ninesolutions.com/centos/7.3.1611/updates/x86_64/Packages/libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.i686.rpm yum install libtirpc-devel-0.2.4-0.8.el7_3.i686.rpm after that i had to reset ambari ambari-server reset and start it back. once started successfully i started over setting up from the 1st step. ... View more