https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Getting-error-while-opening-hive-shell/m-p/107939#M70794 <P>$ hive </P><P>Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/chroot/hadoop/inst/hive/apache-hive-0.13.1-bin/lib/hive-common-0.13.1.jar!/hive-log4j.properties </P><P><STRONG>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClien</STRONG>t at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:346) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:681) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.&lt;init&gt;(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:2453) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:2465) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:340) ... 7 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1410) ... 12 more Caused by: MetaException(message:Could not connect to meta store using any of the URIs provided. Most recent failure: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:185)</P><P>Please help to resolve this error.</P> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:13:03 GMT amit_dass 2016-04-20T16:13:03Z