Do you have disk contention? We have seen issues where multiple services running on same node all trying to write to same physical disk, end up contending with each other. We'd had to move services to write to different disks in the machines in those cases. ... View more

what is in the logs on those nodes? is there additional information? We have seen this, but we have always had additional information to narrow down the cause. ... View more

have you tried to redeploy the clients from ambari to that node ? ... View more

please validate the syntax of your xml files (specifically the hive-site.xml file) and also validate that any custom settings you have in the configuration are identified correctly. Is this an ambari-managed cluster? Also, verify java correctly installed and linked on the node that you are running hive command on. ... View more

Are you installing as root or another user? Have you validated the directory permissions to make sure there is no permission issue blocking the installation? Are there additional details in the ambari-server or ambari-agent logs? ... View more

Have you checked the logs on the ambari server to see what that log shows? ... View more