Getting error while starting hive - hadoop

Question

I have no idea what is going on while starting hive in terminal of Ubuntu 17.04, I am getting some error on the terminal. I am new to hive facing some issues with it, can anybody help me on this.
I have (installed and specified in .bashrc file) :
Hadoop : 2.8.0
Hive : 2.1.1
Java : 1.8.0_131
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings. SLF4J: Found
binding in
[jar:file:/usr/local/src/hive-2.1.1/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.4.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in
[jar:file:/usr/local/src/hadoop-2.8.0/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.10.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an
explanation. SLF4J: Actual binding is of type
[org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
Logging initialized using configuration in
jar:file:/usr/local/src/hive-2.1.1/lib/hive-common-2.1.1.jar!/hive-log4j2.properties
Async: true Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:591)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.beginStart(SessionState.java:531)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:705) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:641) 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:498) at
org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:234) at
org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) Caused by:
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.registerAllFunctionsOnce(Hive.java:226)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.(Hive.java:366) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.create(Hive.java:310) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getInternal(Hive.java:290) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.get(Hive.java:266) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:558)
... 9 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to
instantiate
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1654)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:80)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:130)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:101)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:3367)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:3406) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:3386) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getAllFunctions(Hive.java:3640)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.reloadFunctions(Hive.java:236)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.registerAllFunctionsOnce(Hive.java:221)
... 14 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1652)
... 23 more Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not
found in metastore. ) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.checkSchema(ObjectStore.java:7753)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.verifySchema(ObjectStore.java:7731)
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:498) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:101)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy21.verifySchema(Unknown Source) at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:565)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:626)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:416)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.(RetryingHMSHandler.java:78)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:84)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:6490)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:238)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.(SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java:70)
... 28 more

Answer 1

Hive uses a relational database (Derby, MySQL, Postgresql, etc can be configured) to store its metadata.
Let's see a part of your error message:
more Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. ) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.checkSchema(ObjectStore.java:7753) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.verifySchema(ObjectStore.java:7731)
Hive tried to verify that the metastore schema version is compatible with Hive binaries that are going to accesss the metastore. In your case, the versions were not incompatible.
See Hive official documents for more detail.
To get thing work, you can:
1) Find the hive-site.xml file and configure the property hive.metastore.schema.verification is "false" so that metastore to implicitly write the schema version if it's not matching.
2) Use schematool to upgrade the current schema to later version.
See the below link or Cloudera guide.