"ERROR Unable to locate appender "LOGFILE" for logger config"occurs when upgrading from 7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p1042.65851740 to 7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p20000.79072338 in Hive Metastore

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We have deployed the minor patch updating 7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p1042.65851740 to 7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p20000.79072338 and during the mandatory restarts, we saw Hive Metastore failing with the below error:

2026-07-23T00:18:33.533632426Z main ERROR Unable to locate appender "LOGFILE" for logger config "guru.springframework.blog.log4j2properties"
WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications.
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p20000.79072338/jars/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.25.3.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-7.1.9-1.cdh7.1.9.p20000.79072338/jars/slf4j-reload4j-1.7.36.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.ConfigurationException: No type attribute provided for component logger

Resolution

1. To resolve this issue, do the following: 
   Go to Hive Metastore service > Configuration > Hive Metastore Server Logging Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve)
2. Add the following property 

    loggers=Initiator,Cleaner,PerfLogger​

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