Found another Cloudera KB, where it says: To resolve this issue we have to set this property hadoop.security.authorization to false under hive safety valve as this will be used only by Hive without impacting the storage, since it cannot be set to false at storage layer as it is needed for storage. STEPS TO SET THE PROPERTY: CM < Hive on tez < Hive Service Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for hive-site.xml  Name: hadoop.security.authorization Value: false ... View more

@vi1  1. Navigate to CM ==> Hive on Tez ==> Configs ==> Configuration Hive Service Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) for hive-site.xml   2. Set hive.server2.tez.initialize.default.sessions to false 3. Save and deploy change and start ... View more

After following above steps I'm still not able to start hiveserver2  ... View more

@vi1, as this is an older post, you would have a better chance of receiving a resolution by starting a new thread. This will also be an opportunity to provide details specific to your environment that could aid others in assisting you with a more accurate answer to your question. You can link this thread as a reference in your new post. ... View more