[HCATALOG-231] hcat error does not indicate that metaserver connection failed due to authentication issues (in secure mode)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2, 0.3
• Assignee: Ashutosh Chauhan
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 25/Jan/12 00:19
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 06/Mar/12 21:53

Description

If the kerberos ticket-granting ticket has not been correctly set (using kinit), the error that hcat gives is not very useful -

FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Could not connect to meta store using any of the URIs provided)

It will be useful to print a message that authentication with meta store had failed.
When it fails because of some other reason, it should also print the URI it failed to connect to. That will make it easier to figure out if is a configuration issue.

Issue Links

• depends upon: HIVE-2746 Metastore client doesn't log properly in case of connection failure to server