https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-server-2-thrift-error/m-p/106812#M69688 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/2398/hyadav.html" nodeid="2398">@Harini Yadav</A><P>Seems to be related to below Jira where issue is seen when"hive.server2.authentication" is set to NONE.</P><P><A href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12754" target="_blank">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12754</A></P><P>Workaround is to set "hive.server2.authentication" to "NOSASL" and try.</P> Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:40:51 GMT ssubhas 2016-08-17T13:40:51Z