Thank you for this link: trying this out.   (Yet) another bizarre thing happened with 7.1.x installation - after several attempts I was able to install and get the Cloudera Manager up with web UI.   Most of the services were unavailable even after manually starting them (either through 'service' command or through web UI). Upon observing settings, system activities and logs, I noticed Cloudera was using 6.x binaries AND there were no 7.x files (except for the client libraries).    Hoping to see 7.x running with minimal difficulties. ... View more