Hello Sean,    I am using cloudera quickstart VM (5.10) to list the databases: but facing Communications link failure issue any help would be appreciated. Command line: sqoop list-databases \ --connect "jdbc:mysql://quickstart.cloudera:7180" \ --username retail_dba \ --password cloudera ERROR: Warning: /usr/lib/sqoop/../accumulo does not exist! Accumulo imports will fail. Please set $ACCUMULO_HOME to the root of your Accumulo installation. 17/05/16 15:40:17 INFO sqoop.Sqoop: Running Sqoop version: 1.4.6-cdh5.10.0 17/05/16 15:40:17 WARN tool.BaseSqoopTool: Setting your password on the command-line is insecure. Consider using -P instead. 17/05/16 15:40:18 INFO manager.MySQLManager: Preparing to use a MySQL streaming resultset. 17/05/16 15:43:38 ERROR manager.CatalogQueryManager: Failed to list databases com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. 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 com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1036) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:627) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1013) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2234) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2265) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2064) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.(ConnectionImpl.java:790) at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.(JDBC4Connection.java:44) 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 com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:395) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:325) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:904) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:57) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ListDatabasesTool.run(ListDatabasesTool.java:49) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236) Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost. at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:2914) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:559) ... 25 more 17/05/16 15:43:38 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:73) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ListDatabasesTool.run(ListDatabasesTool.java:49) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227) at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236) Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. 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 com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1036) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:627) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1013) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2234) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2265) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2064) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.(ConnectionImpl.java:790) at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.(JDBC4Connection.java:44) 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 com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:377) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:395) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:325) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:904) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:57) ... 7 more Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost. at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:2914) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readPacket(MysqlIO.java:559) ... 25 more ... View more