https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209332#M171286 <P><EM><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/87334/harryli.html">@Harry Li</A></EM></P><P><EM>Can you run the below as root on against your Mysql databases, assuming again the <STRONG>user/password</STRONG> and <B>db</B> is<STRONG> hive</STRONG></EM></P><PRE>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON hive.* TO 'hive'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'hive'; flush privileges; quit;</PRE><P><EM>The retry I see now is a permission issue.</EM></P><P><EM>HTH </EM></P> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 06:32:43 GMT Shelton 2018-08-02T06:32:43Z