Unable to instantiate HiveMetaStoreClient
Does {username} have the permissions to create/var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db ?
If it is a test cluster you could do
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db
or chown it to the user running it.
Try removing the $HADOOP_HOME/build folder. I had same problem with hive-0.10.0 or above versions. Then I tried hive-0.9.0 and got a different set of errors. Luckily found this thread Hive doesn't work on install. Tried the same trick and it worked for me magically. I am using default derby db.
this is for permissions issue for hive folder. please de the following will work well.go to hive user ,for me hduser,sudo chmod -R 777 hive