Try posting this question on the Cloudera forum. http://community.cloudera.com/
On Mar 2, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Krish Donald <gotomyp...@gmail.com<mailto:gotomyp...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Cloudera manager but it is failing and below is the log file: I have uninstalled postgres and tried again but still the same error. [root@nncloudera cloudera-manager-installer]# more 5.start-embedded-db.log mktemp: failed to create file via template `/tmp/XXXXXXXX': Permission denied /usr/share/cmf/bin/initialize_embedded_db.sh: line 393: $PASSWORD_TMP_FILE: ambiguous redirect The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "cloudera-scm". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF8. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". fixing permissions on existing directory /var/lib/cloudera-scm-server-db/data ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 100 selecting default shared_buffers ... 32MB creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /var/lib/cloudera-scm-server-db/data/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... ok initdb: could not open file "" for reading: No such file or directory initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/cloudera-scm-server-db/data" Could not initialize database server. This usually means that your PostgreSQL installation failed or isn't working properly. PostgreSQL is installed using the set of repositories found on this machine. Please ensure that PostgreSQL can be installed. Please also uninstall any other instances of PostgreSQL and then try again., giving up Please suggest. Thanks Krish