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

For instance, I use MySQL to hold metadata db, I copied

mysql-connector-java-5.1.22-bin.jar into $HIVE_HOME/lib folder

My error resolved