https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209320#M171274 <P>Hi Amarnath,</P><P>Here is what I had tried on the server with hive installed. </P><PRE>root@msl-dpe-perf74:~# mysql -u root -h localhost Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 8 Server version: 5.7.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql&gt; show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | mysql | | performance_schema | | sys | +--------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql&gt; quit Bye</PRE><PRE>root@msl-dpe-perf74:~# mysql -u root -h msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab' (111) root@msl-dpe-perf74:~# </PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:10:38 GMT harry_li 2018-08-02T02:10:38Z