FAILED TO WRITE PID installing Zookeeper

Question

I am new to Zookeeper and it has being a real issue to install it and run. I am not sure what is wrong in here but I will explain what I\'ve being doing to make it more clear:

Answer 1

try to use sudo -E bin/zkServer.sh start

Answer 2

This happens to me due to low disk space. cause zookeeper cant create pid file inside zookeeper data folder.

Answer 3

I have faced the same issue while starting the zookeeper with this command:

hadoop@ubuntu:~/hadoop/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.8$ bin/zkServer.sh start

ERROR [main] client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation: The node /hbase is not in ZooKeeper.

It should have been written by the master. Check the value configured in zookeeper.znode.parent. There could be a mismatch with the one configured in the master.

But running the script as su rectified the issue:

hadoop@ubuntu:~/hadoop/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.8$ sudo bin/zkServer.sh start

ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default Using config: /home/hadoop/hadoop/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.4.8/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg Starting zookeeper ... STARTED

Answer 4

The default zookeeper installation (tar extract) comes with the conf file named conf/zoo_sample.cfg while the same extract's bin/zkServer.sh expects the conf file to be called zoo.cfg thereby resulting in a "No such file or dir" and the "failed to write pid" error. So before running zkServer.sh to start or stop zookeeper instance, either:

• rename the zoo_sample.cfg in the conf dir to zoo.cfg, or
• give the name (and path) to the conf file (as suggested by Ilya Lapitan), or, of course
• edit zkServer.sh ;-)

Answer 5

I have had the same problem. In my case was useful to start Zookeeper and directly specify a configuration file:

/bin/zkServer.sh start conf/zoo.conf

Answer 6

When you create the Directory for dataDir make sure to use the -p option. This will allow subsequent directories to be created as required by the application placing files.

mkdir -p /var/log/zookeeperData Then set:

dataDir=/var/log/zookeeperData