https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Getting-error-while-opening-hive-shell/m-p/107944#M70799 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3004/amitdass.html" nodeid="3004">@Amit Dass</A> - Looks like your HiveMetastore process is not running, I can see connection refused from the logs</P><PRE>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)</PRE><P>Or there might be some connection issues with hive client and hive metastore machine.</P><P>Can you please check connectivity as well ?</P> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 17:12:17 GMT KuldeepK 2016-04-20T17:12:17Z