I cannot reproduce your issue using latest YandexTank 1.12.8.1, you might want to update your current installation using pip like:
pip install https://api.github.com/repos/yandex/yandex-tank/tarball/master
If will still be experiencing problems - run YandexTank with -v
command-line argument, it should produce more verbose debug messages so you will be able to figure out where the problem lives
2020-03-16 09:45:38,960 [DEBUG] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:267 Starting <yandextank.plugins.JMeter.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d57a090>
2020-03-16 09:45:38,968 [INFO] yandextank.plugins.JMeter.plugin plugin.py:119 Starting /home/tank/apache-jmeter-5.2.1/bin/jmeter with arguments: ['/home/tank/apache-jmeter-5.2.1/bin/jmeter', '-n', '-t', '/modified_s7ZsHU.jmx', '-j', '/logs/2020-03-16_09-45-22.748390/jmeter_0vPrFi.log', '-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.default_delimiter=\\t', '-Jjmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time=true']
2020-03-16 09:45:50,632 [WARNING] yandextank.plugins.JMeter.plugin plugin.py:188 JMeter UDP port wasn't discovered
2020-03-16 09:45:50,635 [INFO] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:271 Plugin <yandextank.plugins.JMeter.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d57a090> required 11.666250 seconds to start
2020-03-16 09:45:50,637 [DEBUG] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:267 Starting <yandextank.plugins.RCAssert.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d5059d0>
2020-03-16 09:45:50,640 [INFO] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:271 Plugin <yandextank.plugins.RCAssert.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d5059d0> required 0.000021 seconds to start
2020-03-16 09:45:50,647 [DEBUG] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:267 Starting <yandextank.plugins.Telegraf.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d505110>
2020-03-16 09:45:50,650 [DEBUG] yandextank.plugins.Telegraf.plugin plugin.py:62 load_start_time = 1584351950.65
2020-03-16 09:45:50,655 [INFO] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:271 Plugin <yandextank.plugins.Telegraf.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d505110> required 0.005424 seconds to start
2020-03-16 09:45:50,659 [DEBUG] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:267 Starting <yandextank.plugins.ResourceCheck.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d505c50>
2020-03-16 09:45:50,664 [INFO] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:271 Plugin <yandextank.plugins.ResourceCheck.plugin.Plugin object at 0x7fe01d505c50> required 0.000014 seconds to start
2020-03-16 09:45:50,666 [INFO] yandextank.core.tankcore tankcore.py:279 Waiting for test to finish...
You can also try to change the ownership of the whole JMeter folder to the tank
user like:
chown -R tank /home/tank/apache-jmeter-5.2.1
And finally, you can consider switching to Taurus tool which better supports JMeter and is capable of automatically downloading JMeter with plugins so you won't have to worry about installing JMeter. Check out Navigating your First Steps Using Taurus article for more details.