Can you check the hive logs (which should be located in
/tmp/<user.name>/hive.log )? See
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-ErrorLogs
There ought to be a more specific error there.
Andrew
On 8/6/14, 6:13 PM, Rahul Channe wrote:
Hi All,
I am getting following error
hive> show databases;
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. java.lang.RuntimeException:
Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient
hive>
Regards,
Rahul