首次启动hive报错java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate...

首次启动hive报错：

Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/opt/programs/apache-hive-1.2.2-bin/lib/hive-common-1.2.2.jar!/hive-log4j.properties
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:522)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:677)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:621)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient
	at ..............................

解决办法：
1.检查你的Hadoop有没有启动；
2.检查你的mysql服务有没有启动；
3.检查你的hive-site.xml配置正确没有；
如果以上都没有问题，那可能是因为元数据库没有初始化造成的。执行以下命令，初始化Hive在MySQL中的元数据信息：

#schematool -dbType mysql -initSchema

如果执行完这一句命令后报错，fail…那你将虚拟机重启，然后先启动Hadoop节点，然后启动MySQL服务，再重新执行以上初始化命令。最后大功告成！