Hi Raj I don't see any issues, but jus to re iterate, here's what I did after which I verified the server to be up.
rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin [0] $ ls LICENSE LICENSE-CDDLv1.1-GPLv2_withCPE LICENSE-GPLv3 README LICENSE-CDDL-v1.0 LICENSE-EDL LICENSE-LGPL client LICENSE-CDDLv1.0-GPLv2_withCPE LICENSE-EPL NOTICE server rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin [0] $ cd server/ rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin/server [0] $ ls bin conf conf-pseudo-distr webapp rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin/server [0] $ bin/lens-ctl start /Users/rajat.khandelwal/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin/server Adding hadoop libs in classpath from /opt/hdp HIVE_HOME is set, adding /Users/rajat.khandelwal/Git/hive/packaging/target/apache-hive-0.13.4-inm-SNAPSHOT-bin/apache-hive-0.13.4-inm-SNAPSHOT-bin/lib/* into lens classpath Started lens server! rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin/server [0] $ Looking at your email, I wonder the error line in lens-config.sh has something to do with the problem. The class file is supposed to be here: rajat.khandelwal@lappy:~/apache-lens-2.3.0-beta-bin/server [1] $ ls webapp/lens-server/WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/lens/server/LensServer.class webapp/lens-server/WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/lens/server/LensServer.class See if it's present. On extraction of the tar, inside the webapp folder, lens-server.war file should be present which should auto-extract and create lens-server folder on server start.
