Cloudera CDH 4.6.0 - Hive metastore service not starting

Question

I installed Cloudera CDH 4.6.0 on my Centos 6.2 linux server machine (Cloudera manager - 4.8). I am able to start few services, however not able to start the Hive metastore service.

Cloudera is using Postgre SQL as the remote metatore DB. My host name is delvmpll2, but when starting Hive service, it is giving java.net.UnknownHostException: localhost.localdomain.

I edited the hostname in hive-site.xml and restarted all the services, but still the same exception is coming. I could not find the place where cloudera is picking this hostname.

Could someone please let me know what would have went wrong.

Here is the exception

Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: localhost.localdomain
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:189)
        at org.postgresql.core.PGStream.<init>(PGStream.java:62)
        at org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:76)
        ... 58 more
2014-07-04 07:16:06,354 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore: Shutting down hive metastore.

Thanks in advance

Can you check your /etc/hosts file, it should have 127.0.0.1 localhost ? — Mukesh S

Raghu Raghu · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-08T04:05:52

Finally I solved it.

I changed the server_host value in config.ini file in /etc/cloudera-scm-agent to my host and after that when I restarted the services, all the services are running well

Cloudera CDH 4.6.0 - Hive metastore service not starting

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