Github user bern80 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/commit/b49b3f46f91d06c4d497f8f11cbc334fd480e539#commitcomment-28397460 I think the issue below is related with this commit: [b49b3f4](https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/commit/b49b3f46f91d06c4d497f8f11cbc334fd480e539) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.gson.internal.StringMap cannot be cast to java.lang.String at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.InterpreterSetting.setProperties(InterpreterSetting.java:498) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.InterpreterSettingManager.loadFromFile(InterpreterSettingManager.java:224) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.InterpreterSettingManager.init(InterpreterSettingManager.java:342) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.InterpreterSettingManager.<init>(InterpreterSettingManager.java:174) at org.apache.zeppelin.interpreter.InterpreterSettingManager.<init>(InterpreterSettingManager.java:134) at org.apache.zeppelin.server.ZeppelinServer.<init>(ZeppelinServer.java:127) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.reflection.ReflectionHelper.makeMe(ReflectionHelper.java:1350) at org.jvnet.hk2.internal.Utilities.justCreate(Utilities.java:1009) ... 30 more
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