https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-starting-HIVE-metastore/m-p/209335#M171289 <P>Here is the content of /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname. My cluster contains 3 nodes. perf74 is Name Node, perf75 is secondary Name Node and Perf76 is Data node</P><P>All 3 machines has very similar setup</P><PRE>harry.li@msl-dpe-perf74:/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d$ cat /etc/hostname msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab harry.li@msl-dpe-perf74:/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost #127.0.1.1msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab 10.1.30.221msl-dpe-perf74.msl.lab 10.1.30.223msl-dpe-perf75.msl.lab 10.1.30.192msl-dpe-perf76.msl.lab 10.10.98.64 perf74 10.10.98.43 perf75 10.10.98.51 perf76 10.10.98.67 perf77 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters</PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 07:16:32 GMT harry_li 2018-08-02T07:16:32Z