Getting NullPointerException when running Spark Code in Zeppelin 0.7.1

Question

I have installed Zeppelin 0.7.1. When I tried to execute the Example spark program(which was available with Zeppelin Tutorial notebook), I am getting t

Answer 1

    enterCaused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:182)
        ... 74 more
)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.open(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:466)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:236)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.(SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java:74)
        ... 71 more
 INFO [2017-11-20 17:51:55,288] ({pool-2-thread-4} SparkInterpreter.java[createSparkSession]:369) - Created Spark session with Hive support
ERROR [2017-11-20 17:51:55,290] ({pool-2-thread-4} Job.java[run]:181) - Job failed code here

It looks like Hive Metastore service not started. You can start the Metastore service and try again.

hive --service metastore