It seems your hive metastore is down. restart it and try again. Thanks, Divakar
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Rahul Channe <drah...@googlemail.com> 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 >