FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient

Question

I shutdown my HDFS client while HDFS and hive instances were running. Now when I relogged into Hive, I can\'t execute any of my DDL Tasks e.g. \"show tables\" or \"describe

Answer 1

I was told that generally we get this exception if we the hive console not terminated properly. The fix:

Run the jps command, look for "RunJar" process and kill it using kill -9 command