I had this problem as well, then started Hive via Hue and tried again. I recieved a similar error but also noticed a critical error via the Hue console... "Hive Metastore Canary". Rather cryptic, but I'm willing to bet it's because I'm running in a VM that doesn't really have enough RAM. I only have 8GB on my PC with 5GB allocated to the VM. I searched for pre-built AWS EC2 images I could just spin up quickly but didn't have any luck. Ideas?   16/02/10 17:42:17 INFO hive.metastore: Connected to metastore. 16/02/10 17:42:17 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: org.kitesdk.data.DatasetOperationException: Hive MetaStore exception org.kitesdk.data.DatasetOperationException: Hive MetaStore exception at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.MetaStoreUtil.createTable(MetaStoreUtil.java:252) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.HiveManagedMetadataProvider.create(HiveManagedMetadataProvider.java:87) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.HiveManagedDatasetRepository.create(HiveManagedDatasetRepository.java:81) at org.kitesdk.data.Datasets.create(Datasets.java:239) at org.kitesdk.data.Datasets.create(Datasets.java:307) at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ParquetJob.createDataset(ParquetJob.java:141) at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ParquetJob.configureImportJob(ParquetJob.java:119) at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.DataDrivenImportJob.configureMapper(DataDrivenImportJob.java:130) at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:260) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importTable(SqlManager.java:673) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.MySQLManager.importTable(MySQLManager.java:118) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:497) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportAllTablesTool.run(ImportAllTablesTool.java:111) 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: MetaException(message:Got exception: java.net.ConnectException Call From quickstart.cloudera/127.0.0.1 to quickstart.cloudera:8020 failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; For more details see: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ConnectionRefused) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_table_with_environment_context_result$create_table_with_environment_context_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29897) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_table_with_environment_context_result$create_table_with_environment_context_resultStandardScheme.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29865) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$create_table_with_environment_context_result.read(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:29791) at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_create_table_with_environment_context(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1071) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.create_table_with_environment_context(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1057) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.create_table_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:2034) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.createTable(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:670) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.createTable(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:658) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.MetaStoreUtil$4.call(MetaStoreUtil.java:230) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.MetaStoreUtil$4.call(MetaStoreUtil.java:227) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.MetaStoreUtil.doWithRetry(MetaStoreUtil.java:70) at org.kitesdk.data.spi.hive.MetaStoreUtil.createTable(MetaStoreUtil.java:242) ... 18 more ... View more