beeline connection to hiveserver2 is failing with "The initCause method cannot be used. To set the cause of this exception, use a constructor with a Throwable[] argument."

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SYMPTOM:

beeline connection to hiveserver2 is failing with the following exception intermittently.

"The initCause method cannot be used. To set the cause of this exception, use a constructor with a Throwable[] argument."

further looking at the HiveServer2 logs we saw stack trace like this

ava.sql.SQLException: Could not retrieve transation read-only status server
        at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.NucleusJDOHelper.getJDOExceptionForNucleusException(NucleusJDOHelper.java:451)
        at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManager.getDataStoreConnection(JDOPersistenceManager.java:2259)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreDirectSql.getProductName(MetaStoreDirectSql.java:171)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreDirectSql.determineDbType(MetaStoreDirectSql.java:152)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreDirectSql.<init>(MetaStoreDirectSql.java:122)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.initialize(ObjectStore.java:300)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.setConf(ObjectStore.java:263)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor36.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:114)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy7.setConf(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.setConf(HiveMetaStore.java:523)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.<init>(RetryingHMSHandler.java:56)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:72)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:5798)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:199)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java:74)
        ... 35 more
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Could not retrieve transation read-only status server
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1086)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:989)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:975)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:920)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:951)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:941)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.isReadOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:3972)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.isReadOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:3943)
        at com.jolbox.bonecp.ConnectionHandle.isReadOnly(ConnectionHandle.java:867)
        at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.ConnectionFactoryImpl$ManagedConnectionImpl.getConnection(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:422)
        at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.RDBMSStoreManager.getNucleusConnection(RDBMSStoreManager.java:1382)
        at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManager.getDataStoreConnection(JDOPersistenceManager.java:2245)
        ... 51 more
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure


The last packet successfully received from the server was 381,109 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was
381,109 milliseconds ago.
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor55.newInstance(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1129)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3988)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2598)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2778)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2828)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2777)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1651)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.isReadOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:3966)
        ... 56 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:113)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:153)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:82)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:140)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3969)

ROOT CAUSE:

After analyzing TCP DUMP we found that it's MySQL server who is dropping network packets very frequently.

WORKAROUND:

NA

RESOLUTION:

need to check and fix the network issue between HiveServer2 host and MySQL host.