beeline not able to connect to hiveserver2

Question

I have a CDH 5.3 instance. I start the hive-server2 by first starting the hive-metastore and then the hive-server from command line. After this I use beeline to connect to my

Answer 1

I had the same problem here. This is simply because hiveserver2 failed to start -- the error does not show up in console, but in hive logs. In my case, hive logs are located in /tmp/ubuntu/hive.log

There might be different reason for you to cause hive-server2 failed to start, but it definitely worth to look into this log file.