@Madhura
Hama does not always need a groomserver file to run fully distributed mode. groomserver file is needed to start the hama cluster using only start-bspd.sh . But the emr-bootstrap hama action runs groomservers on each sub-node using the hama-daemon.sh file. The code executed in the install script is as follows.
$ /bin/hama-daemon.sh --config ${HAMA_HOME}/conf start groom
I think you need to check emr logs to see if they have an error or not.
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