[docs] Help when seeing user home dir missing in editor
@@ -604,6 +604,22 @@ And if using Cloudera distribution, make sure you have notebooks enabled:
[notebook]
show_notebooks=true
+**YARN: Spark session could not be created**
+
+If seeing an error similar to this with `primitiveMkdir`:
+
+ The Spark session could not be created in the cluster: at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:165)
+ at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:157)
+ at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler$Call.invokeOnce(RetryInvocationHandler.java:95)
+ at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:359) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy10.mkdirs(Unknown Source)
+ at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.primitiveMkdir(DFSClient.java:2333) ... 20 more
+ 19/05/13 12:27:07 INFO util.ShutdownHookManager: Shutdown hook called 19/05/13 12:27:07 INFO util.ShutdownHookManager:
+ Deleting directory /tmp/spark-0d045154-77a0-4e12-94b2-2df18725a4ae YARN Diagnostics:
+
+Does your logged-in user have a home dir on HDFS (i.e. `/user/bob`)? (you should see the full error in the Livy or YARN logs).
+
+In Hue admin for you user, you can click the 'Create home' checkbox and save.
+
**CSRF**
Livy supports a configuration parameter in the Livy conf:
