https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209328#M171282 <P>You can execute below SQL and try again.</P><PRE>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON hive.* TO 'hive'@'msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab'IDENTIFIED BY 'hive'</PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 05:09:32 GMT apappu 2018-08-02T05:09:32Z