https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hiveserver2-not-starting-Zookeeper-not-ready/m-p/316816#M226905 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/86203">@dmharshit</a>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Check your Ambari UI---&gt;HDFS--&gt;Config-- look for the parameter hadoop.proxyuser.hive.hosts make sure it's the HS2 host is listed here.</P><P>In my case bern.swiss.ch</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ClouderaComm_HDP 3.1.4.JPG" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/31240iF7A64614021544C8/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ClouderaComm_HDP 3.1.4.JPG" alt="ClouderaComm_HDP 3.1.4.JPG" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Then restart the stale services and revert if you see any errors share the logs</P><P>Happy Hadooping</P> Thu, 20 May 2021 13:54:04 GMT Shelton 2021-05-20T13:54:04Z