I think this may be some permission issue. Check your spark conf for hadoop related.
fightf...@163.com From: Arunkumar Pillai Date: 2016-02-23 14:08 To: user Subject: spark 1.6 Not able to start spark Hi When i try to start spark-shell I'm getting following error Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:131) at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.<init>(Groups.java:70) ..... What could be the reason for this error -- Thanks and Regards Arun