https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209323#M171277 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/87334/harryli.html" nodeid="87334">@Harry Li</A> are you trying from same host where metastore is failed to come up? can you try simple command line JDBC connect using <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/88645/how-to-test-mysql-jdbc-connection-through-cli.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/88645/how-to-test-mysql-jdbc-connection-through-cli.html</A> and see?</P> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:38:51 GMT apappu 2018-08-02T02:38:51Z