Created question in FIWARE Q/A platform on 20-08-2015 at 15:08
Please, ANSWER this question AT https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32120317/fiware-cosmos-hive-authorization-issue

Question:
Fiware Cosmos Hive Authorization Issue

Description:
I'm using a shared instance of Fiware Cosmos (meaning I don't have root privileges). I have until today successfully acessed and managed tables in hive both remotely using jdbc, and Hive CLI.
But now I'm getting this error when starting Hive CLI:

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)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:197)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:171)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.ShimLoader.createShim(ShimLoader.java:120)
... 27 more
log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named "EventCounter".

Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/usr/local/apache-hive-0.13.0-bin/lib/hive-common-0.13.0.jar!/hive-log4j.properties

I can however perform select and create in the Hive CLI.
If I then try to access Hive remotely, I get this:

Connecting to jdbc:hive://x.x.x.x:10000/default?user=user&password=XXXXXXXXXX
Could not establish connection: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

I didn't do any changes in code or commands before the errors appeared, and after googling around I haven't found any working solutions.

If anyone can guide me to where the problem is, or how to find it, or even better how to solve it, I'd be grateful.

Thanks in advance!