https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/FAILED-SemanticException-Unable-to-fetch-table-hive/m-p/178801#M141047 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/16971/godavarimdv.html" nodeid="16971">@godavari m</A> </P><P>Can you ensure hive metastore is running OK. </P><P>Enable debug for hive cli to get more information why its failing</P><P>hive --hiveconf hive.root.logger=DEBUG, DRFA --hiveconf hive.log.file=/tmp/debug_hive.log</P> Sat, 01 Apr 2017 06:46:39 GMT knarendran 2017-04-01T06:46:39Z