We had this issue because some partitions pointed to a non HA location on hdfs. Fixed it by running: hive --config /etc/hive/conf/conf.server --service metatool [-dryRun] -updateLocation hdfs://h2cluster hdfs://h2namenode:8020 , In our case, the problem was that some hive partitions had incorrect location. We fixed it using hive metatool like this: hive --config /etc/hive/conf/conf.server --service metatool [-dryRun] -updateLocation hdfs://hcluster hdfs://namenode:8020 ... View more