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

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