Installation fails: launcher: error: --launcher-config option requires an argument about ambari-presto-service HOT 4 CLOSED

I suspect the problem is that Ambari is not set to run with Java 8. You can set the JDK used by Ambari through the java.home property in /etc/ambari-server/conf/ambari.properties. However I don't know if this will propagate to the Ambari agents (and Presto workers) so they start using that JDK as well. I'm currently trying to reproduce this locally to make sure the agents start using the right JDK as well. I'll comment here again with my findings once I know more.

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So I just tried installing Presto with Ambari running JDK 7 and the installation failed, albeit at a different point. The installation failed when trying to install the RPM, which is before starting Presto. The reason why the RPM installation fails is because the RPM preinstall scripts checks the system for Java 8 and if it can't find any, it fails. So I don't know how you got yourself in a state where you managed to install the Presto RPM but then the start script can't find the right Java.

After my little experiment, I edited java.home in /etc/ambari-server/conf/ambari.properties on the Ambari master to point to the JDK 8 that Ambari downloaded in /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60/. I then re-installed one of the Presto workers, whose installation had previously failed, and it succeeded. That node now also has Java 8 in /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60/, whereas before it didn't. I think Ambari transparently copied the JDK over when it detected that the slave didn't have it.

What do you get when you run java -version on the node where Presto failed to start?

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My bad, Ambari will NOT copy over the JDK. You need to have it installed in the same location on all nodes. So if you set java.home to /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_60/, that JDK needs to be in that location on all nodes.

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I guess the issue was that I was first installing the ambari-server, setting it up, starting it and afterwards installing the ambari-presto-service and then restart the server. Also somehow there woas java version "1.8.0_45" on it. After removing it and starting from scrach everything works perfect. Thanks for your help!

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