Downloaded apache 3.2.0 the latest one as well as the hadoop file java Java SE Development Kit 17.0.1 is installed too

i am not even able to initialize

input :

import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
df = spark.sql('''select 'spark' as hello ''')
df.show()

Output#

Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling None.org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.
: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.spark.storage.StorageUtils$
at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManagerMasterEndpoint.<init>(BlockManagerMasterEndpoint.scala:110)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.$anonfun$create$9(SparkEnv.scala:348)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.registerOrLookupEndpoint$1(SparkEnv.scala:287)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:336)
at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createDriverEnv(SparkEnv.scala:191)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.createSparkEnv(SparkContext.scala:277)

Spark only supports Java version 8-11. I had the same issue on Linux and switching to Java 11 instead of 17 helped in my case.