Thanks Ashnee, It worked after removing all files/configuration from previous installs was causing problem. ... View more

I am working with Raviraj and performed the recommended steps on his behalf, issue still exists, different error message this time though. As suggested: Uninstaled ambari-agent, removed following directories and successfully re-installed ambari-agent: /etc/ambari-agent /var/lib/ambari-agent, /var/run/ambari-agent /usr/lib/amrbari-agent /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari-agent While starting the agent it now throws different error: Starting ambari-agent Verifying ambari-agent process status... ERROR: ambari-agent start failed. For more details, see /ambari-agent.out: ==================== Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/AmbariAgent.py", line 24, in <module> from Controller import AGENT_AUTO_RESTART_EXIT_CODE File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/Controller.py", line 41, in <module> from ambari_agent.ActionQueue import ActionQueue File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/ActionQueue.py", line 37, in <module> from ambari_commons.str_utils import split_on_chunks ImportError: cannot import name split_on_chunks ==================== The ambari-agent.out file also show same above messages that we see in console , Uninstaled ambari-agent, removed following directories and successfully re-installed ambari-agent: /etc/ambari-agent /var/lib/ambari-agent, /var/run/ambari-agent /usr/lib/amrbari-agent /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari-agent While starting the agent it now throws different error: Starting ambari-agent Verifying ambari-agent process status... ERROR: ambari-agent start failed. For more details, see /ambari-agent.out: ==================== Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/AmbariAgent.py", line 24, in <module> from Controller import AGENT_AUTO_RESTART_EXIT_CODE File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/Controller.py", line 41, in <module> from ambari_agent.ActionQueue import ActionQueue File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_agent/ActionQueue.py", line 37, in <module> from ambari_commons.str_utils import split_on_chunks ImportError: cannot import name split_on_chunks ==================== The ambari-agent.out file also show same above messages that we see in console ... View more