Hi,
To order to let a local spark-shell connect to a remote spark stand-alone cluster and access hive tables there, I must put the hive-site.xml file into the local spark installation's conf path, but spark-shell even can't import the default settings there, I found two errors: <property> <name>hive.metastore.client.connect.retry.delay</name> <value>5s</value> </property> <property> <name>hive.metastore.client.socket.timeout</name> <value>1800s</value> </property> Spark-shell try to read 5s and 1800s and integers, they must be changed to 5 and 1800 to let spark-shell work, It's suggested to be fixed in future versions.