Same problem here. Below is the end of the splunk log file from TEMP. the last error before removing is DS init failed: Deployment Server not available on a dedicated forwarder
Successfully processed 31 files; Failed processing 0 files
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:49:38 GMT
Expires: Thu, 26 Oct 1978 00:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Length: 1930
Connection: Close
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Server: Splunkd
/services/apps/local
2017-09-28T10:49:38-04:00
<name>Splunk</name>
0
30
0
<s:msg type="INFO">Restart required by: default-mode, limits, server, web</s:msg>
DS init failed: Deployment Server not available on a dedicated forwarder.
Removing service SplunkForwarder
Service removed
Disabled.
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