It implies that there is some issue with your permissions, you need to sort it out before you try to run zookeeper. Can you try to set the appropriate permissions to the directory before you try to run zookeeper? Is the '/home/zookeeper' even there? Perhaps you want to try '/tmp/zookeeper' just to test.
-Flavio > On 04 May 2016, at 09:35, Pranavan Theivendiram <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes. I tried. It did not work. > On May 4, 2016 1:48 PM, "Flavio Junqueira" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello there, >> >> Have you tried creating the myid file manually? Does it work? >> >> -Flavio >> >>> On 04 May 2016, at 03:50, Pranavan Theivendiram < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am getting the following error in server start up. >>> >>> *ZooKeeper JMX enabled by default* >>> *Using config: /home/pranavan/2K16/zookeeper-3.4.8/bin/../conf/zoo.cfg* >>> *mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/zookeeper’: Permission denied* >>> *Starting zookeeper ... ./zkServer.sh: line 149: >>> /home/zookeeper/zookeeper_server.pid: No such file or directory* >>> *FAILED TO WRITE PID* >>> >>> I started with root privileges. I did not have any problems. The server >> is >>> starting up properly. >>> >>> The proposed solution in stackoverflow is as follows. >>> >>> Link - >>> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19295978/failed-to-write-pid-installing-zookeeper >>> >>> Even that solution is not working for me. >>> >>> Can you please provide a method to start the server without user >> privileges? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> >>> *T. Pranavan* >>> *Junior Consultant | Department of Computer Science & Engineering >>> ,University of Moratuwa* >>> *Mobile| *0775136836 >> >>
