https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-queries-taking-LONG-time-to-start/m-p/155056#M117495 <P>I'm sorry, <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/83368/shaleens.html" nodeid="83368">@shaleen somani</A> - this was over a year ago and I don't remember the details any more.</P><P>My guess is that our primary and secondary name nodes had failed over for some reason.</P><P>I've found that when this happens, things continue to "work", but not quite right and it can be hard to pin down.</P><P>You can use the hdfs haadmin utility to check the status.<BR />Good luck!</P> Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:46:18 GMT zack_riesland 2018-06-14T17:46:18Z