Installed HDP2.4.2 with custom users. Hive metastore database used oracle 12c. metastore starting and failing with below error. used both ojdbc6.jar and ojdbc7.jar. 2017-01-04 22:33:25,281 INFO [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:main(5917)) - Starting hive metastore on port 9083 2017-01-04 22:33:25,379 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(179)) - Starting JVM pause monitor 2017-01-04 22:33:25,404 INFO [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:newRawStore(599)) - 0: Opening raw store with implemenation class:org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore 2017-01-04 22:33:25,434 INFO [main]: metastore.ObjectStore (ObjectStore.java:initialize(294)) - ObjectStore, initialize called 2017-01-04 22:33:26,699 INFO [main]: metastore.ObjectStore (ObjectStore.java:getPMF(379)) - Setting MetaStore object pin classes with hive.metastore.cache.pinobjtypes="Table,Database,Type,FieldSchema,Order" 2017-01-04 22:33:46,499 INFO [main]: metastore.MetaStoreDirectSql (MetaStoreDirectSql.java:<init>(140)) - Using direct SQL, underlying DB is ORACLE 2017-01-04 22:33:46,502 INFO [main]: metastore.ObjectStore (ObjectStore.java:setConf(277)) - Initialized ObjectStore 2017-01-04 22:34:42,882 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 3368ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=3444ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=1 time=353ms 2017-01-04 22:36:15,411 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 2512ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=1756ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=1 time=1136ms 2017-01-04 22:37:11,339 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 2400ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=2518ms 2017-01-04 22:41:02,389 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 5415ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=5109ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=2 time=626ms 2017-01-04 22:41:27,052 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 5658ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=5718ms 2017-01-04 22:44:52,288 WARN [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(192)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 16503ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=2 time=15796ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=3 time=959ms 2017-01-04 22:44:52,291 WARN [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:createDefaultDB(632)) - Retrying creating default database after error: Exception thrown while loading remaining rows of query javax.jdo.JDOUserException: Exception thrown while loading remaining rows of query at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOAdapter.getUserExceptionForException(JDOAdapter.java:1139) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.query.ForwardQueryResult.closingConnection(ForwardQueryResult.java:296) at org.datanucleus.store.query.AbstractQueryResult.disconnect(AbstractQueryResult.java:107) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.query.AbstractRDBMSQueryResult.disconnect(AbstractRDBMSQueryResult.java:236) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.query.JDOQLQuery$2.transactionPreClose(JDOQLQuery.java:755) at org.datanucleus.store.connection.AbstractManagedConnection.transactionPreClose(AbstractManagedConnection.java:94) at org.datanucleus.store.connection.ConnectionManagerImpl$2.transactionPreRollBack(ConnectionManagerImpl.java:447) at org.datanucleus.TransactionImpl.internalPreRollback(TransactionImpl.java:500) at org.datanucleus.TransactionImpl.rollback(TransactionImpl.java:427) at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOTransaction.rollback(JDOTransaction.java:182) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.rollbackTransaction(ObjectStore.java:505) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getMSchemaVersion(ObjectStore.java:6763) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getMetaStoreSchemaVersion(ObjectStore.java:6732) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.checkSchema(ObjectStore.java:6690) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.verifySchema(ObjectStore.java:6674) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:114) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy2.verifySchema(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:582) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:630) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:470) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.<init>(RetryingHMSHandler.java:66) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:5792) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:5787) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.startMetaStore(HiveMetaStore.java:6020) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.main(HiveMetaStore.java:5945) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136) NestedThrowablesStackTrace: java.lang.NullPointerException 2017-01-04 22:44:52,292 INFO [main]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:newRawStore(599)) - 0: Opening raw store with implemenation class:org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore 2017-01-04 22:44:52,293 INFO [main]: metastore.ObjectStore (ObjectStore.java:initialize(294)) - ObjectStore, initialize called 2017-01-04 22:44:52,303 INFO [main]: metastore.MetaStoreDirectSql (MetaStoreDirectSql.java:<init>(140)) - Using direct SQL, underlying DB is ORACLE 2017-01-04 22:44:52,304 INFO [main]: metastore.ObjectStore (ObjectStore.java:setConf(277)) - Initialized ObjectStore 2017-01-04 22:46:30,360 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 1676ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=1272ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=1 time=530ms 2017-01-04 22:48:07,328 INFO [org.apache.hadoop.util.JvmPauseMonitor$Monitor@74011c74]: util.JvmPauseMonitor (JvmPauseMonitor.java:run(196)) - Detected pause in JVM or host machine (eg GC): pause of approximately 3741ms GC pool 'PS MarkSweep' had collection(s): count=1 time=2501ms GC pool 'PS Scavenge' had collection(s): count=1 time=1283ms 2017-01-04 22:51:54,842 INFO org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136) NestedThrowablesStackTrace: java.lang.NullPointerException 2017-01-04 23:44:47,777 INFO [Thread-4]: metastore.HiveMetaStore (HiveMetaStore.java:run(5934)) - Shutting down hive metastore. ... 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