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Init Script Failing

semsim
New Contributor III

I am getting an error when I try to run the cluster scoped init script. The script itself is as follows:

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo apt install libreoffice-common libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-writer openjdk-8-jre-headless -y

below you can find the error message:

Init script failure:
Cluster scoped init script <path to .sh file> failed: Script exit status is non-zero

I've tried uploading the .sh via databricks CLI. I have also read about enabling logging which would be nice to get some help with.

Thanks for your help and time. 

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SashankKotta
New Contributor
New Contributor

It is failing with exit status non-zero, which means the issue is in the init script file; please ensure there are no control-m chars in your init script sh file. you can run 

dos2unix <init_scrip_shell_file>

 or manually remove control-m chars in vi editor and upload. It should work.

Ideally, It is recommended to use custom compute cluster policies for any library installation instead of init scripts.

Sashank Kotta

jacovangelder
Contributor III

Most likely your init script has windows line endings.
Open it in VSCode and change the line endings to Unix (LF) line endings. 

semsim
New Contributor III

@jacovangelder @SashankKotta ,

Is that all it could be? I've double checked the line endings and it is LF with no ^M chars. I took the file directly from WSL and uploaded it to DBFS.and it is still failing with a non-zero exit status.

jacovangelder
Contributor III

Did some debugging for you. It works for me using this

#!/bin/bash

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-common libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-writer openjdk-8-jre-headless -y

Not sure why apt get works and apt install doesn't
Btw, Init scripts on DBFS are being deprecated any moment now. Best update to Workspace files or a UC volume. 

semsim
New Contributor III

@jacovangelder  That does not seem to do it for me either. I have updated the location of the init script to be a workspace location rather than DBFS.

You're right, it doesn't work. Not sure why my cluster was showing up as running last night, most likely something caching related. I'll try to jump into it at some later point if I have some time. Very strange!

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