Not sure what the issues is, conf is good, validated I can log in to mysql with username in the hive-site, and I ran the metastore update scripts.
show tables; java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readStringBody(TBinaryProtocol.java:353) at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readMessageBegin(TBinaryProtocol.java:215) at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:69) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.recv_get_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.get_database(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:399) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.getDatabase(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:736) 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.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.invoke(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:74) at $Proxy6.getDatabase(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getDatabase(Hive.java:1110) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.databaseExists(Hive.java:1099) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.showTables(DDLTask.java:2206) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:334) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1336) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1122) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:935) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:755) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) 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) FAILED: Execution Error, return code -101 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask Thoughts?