$ beeline -u jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 scan complete in 10ms Connecting to jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 Error: Invalid URL: jdbc:hive2://hostname:10000 (state=08S01,code=0) Beeline version 0.10.0-cdh4.5.0 by Apache Hive 0: jdbc:hive2://hostname.c> You might have already connected. try command show databases; ... View more

This is not helpful. Last thing, in the log, do you see incoming connections? ... View more

I saw previously: Unable to login to kerberos with given principal/keytab, which made me assume you had kerberos turned on.   It's better to test beeline connection without kerberos on. Could you check your hiverserver2 log?     ... View more

Could you check this to see if it helps? http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/4.2.1/CDH4-Security-Guide/cdh4sg_topic_9_1.html ... View more

It looks like that your hive-site.xml specified kerberos authentication. You need to specify principal in your url, such as beeline -u jdbc:hive2://host:port;pricipal=principal_name principal_name is specified in hive-site.xml. Also, before you connect, you need to do kerberos kinit to get authentication token. I suggest you turn off authentication first and make sure you can connect to your server. Then, turn on authentication back. ... View more

can you show the result of the following: env | grep HIVE ... View more

I meant you literally try "beeline -u jdbc:hive2://"... ... View more

Could you try "beeline -u jdbc:hive2://" to see if this work for you? ... View more

Could you try not specifying the driver class and let the system take the default? ... View more

Also leave it blank. ... View more