I'm getting this same error using the hostname instead of the ip address.  As I'm new to this I'm stuck at the moment getting through the basic tutorial.   our query has the following error(s): AnalysisException: Failed to load metadata for table: default.order_items CAUSED BY: TableLoadingException: Problem reading Avro schema at: hdfs://quickstart.cloudera/user/examples/sqoop_import_order_items.avsc CAUSED BY: FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: /user/examples/sqoop_import_order_items.avsc at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:55) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocationsUpdateTimes(FSNamesystem.java:1878) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocationsInt(FSNamesystem.java:1819) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocations(FSNamesystem.java:1799) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocations(FSNamesystem.java:1771) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.getBlockLocations(NameNodeRpcServer.java:527) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.getBlockLocations(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:85) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.getBlockLocations(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:356) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:587) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1026) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2013) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1642) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2007) CAUSED BY: RemoteException: File does not exist: /user/examples/sqoop_import_order_items.avsc at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.INodeFile.valueOf(INodeFile.java:55) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocationsUpdateTimes(FSNamesystem.java:1878) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocationsInt(FSNamesystem.java:1819) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocations(FSNamesystem.java:1799) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocations(FSNamesystem.java:1771) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.getBlockLocations(NameNodeRpcServer.java:527) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.getBlockLocations(AuthorizationProviderProxyClientProtocol.java:85) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.getBlockLocations(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:356) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:587) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1026) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2013) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2009) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1642) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:2007)     ... View more