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Question:
Error Hive

Description:
I'm following the basic steps in Cosmos and when I write this command:

hive

hive - select * from <my_user>starwars; // or any other SQL-like sentence, properly called HiveQL

the terminal shows this message:
log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate class [org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HiveEventCounter].
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims in class org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.createShim(ShimLoader.java:123)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.loadShims(ShimLoader.java:115)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.getEventCounter(ShimLoader.java:98)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HiveEventCounter.<init>(HiveEventCounter.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:310)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:330)
at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:121)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:664)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:647)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:544)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:440)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:476)
at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:354)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4jDefault(LogUtils.java:127)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4jCommon(LogUtils.java:77)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4j(LogUtils.java:58)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:641)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)