https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/HiveServer2-failed-to-start/m-p/335540#M231971 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/20288">@Shelton</a>&nbsp;, I am facing the same issue as mentioned above while starting hiveserver2. I followed your debug steps and when I listed ls /hiveserver2 in Akali shell, I am getting below response</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">Welcome to ZooKeeper! 2022-02-02 23:11:02,741 - INFO [main-SendThread(localhost:2181):ClientCnxn$SendThread@1013] - Opening socket connection to server localhost/127.0.0.1:2181. Will not attempt to authenticate using SASL (unknown error) JLine support is enabled 2022-02-02 23:11:02,834 - INFO [main-SendThread(localhost:2181):ClientCnxn$SendThread@856] - Socket connection established, initiating session, client: /127.0.0.1:58334, server: localhost/127.0.0.1:2181 2022-02-02 23:11:02,851 - INFO [main-SendThread(localhost:2181):ClientCnxn$SendThread@1273] - Session establishment complete on server localhost/127.0.0.1:2181, sessionid = 0x27ebd79aecc0088, negotiated timeout = 30000 WATCHER:: WatchedEvent state:SyncConnected type:None path:null [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 0] ls /hiveserver2 [] [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 1] </LI-CODE><P>which means I don't have entry hiveserver2 entry in my zookeeper. And when I debug hiveserver2.log under /var/log/hive folder I see below error as permission denied.</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: Permission denied: user=hive, access=EXECUTE, inode="/tmp/hive" at org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.RangerHdfsAuthorizer$RangerAccessControlEnforcer.checkPermission(RangerHdfsAuthorizer.java:457) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkTraverse(FSPermissionChecker.java:604) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkTraverse(FSDirectory.java:1858) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkTraverse(FSDirectory.java:1876)</LI-CODE><P>Please help me to resolve this if you have come across this issue anytime. Thanks</P> Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:27:59 GMT prashanthshetty 2022-02-03T04:27:59Z