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 have faced this issue and in my case it was while running hive command from command line.

I resolved this issue by running kinit command as I was using kerberized hive.

kinit -kt