Writing this so that it can help someone in future: I was installing Hive and getting error that It hive metastore wasn't able to connect, and I successfully resolved the error by recreating the hive metastore database.   Someone the user which was created in mysql Hive metastore wasn't working properly and not able to authenticate. So I dropped metastore DB, Dropped User. Recreated Metastore DB, Recreated User, Granted all privileges and then it was working without issues. ... View more

@Dennis Fridlyand, I'm glad to hear this helped! ... View more

Thank you @Rajkumar Singh! You would only add that it's rather convenient for me to use the following approach: yarn logs -applicationId application_1465548978834_0004 | grep my.foo.class > /home/user/log2.txt With this command I can filter all the log entries for the class I want to analyze. ... View more

Thanks, this solution worked after I did the solution of @Alessio Ubaldi ... View more