title: Hive 2.1.1 MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. )
body: <p>I'm running Hadoop 2.7.3, MySQL 5.7.17 and Hive 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.</p>
  
  <p>When I run ./hive, I keep getting the following warning and exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
  SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/server/hive/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.4.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
  SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/server/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.10.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
  SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
  SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
  
  Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/home/server/hive/lib/hive-common-2.1.1.jar!/hive-log4j2.properties Async: true
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:41 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:41 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:41 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:41 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:42 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:42 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:42 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Mon Feb 13 12:01:42 EST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification.
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:591)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.beginStart(SessionState.java:531)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:705)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:641)
      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: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.registerAllFunctionsOnce(Hive.java:226)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.&lt;init&gt;(Hive.java:366)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.create(Hive.java:310)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getInternal(Hive.java:290)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.get(Hive.java:266)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:558)
      ... 9 more
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1654)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.&lt;init&gt;(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:80)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:130)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:101)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:3367)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:3406)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:3386)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getAllFunctions(Hive.java:3640)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.reloadFunctions(Hive.java:236)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.registerAllFunctionsOnce(Hive.java:221)
      ... 14 more
  Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1652)
      ... 23 more
  Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. )
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.checkSchema(ObjectStore.java:7753)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.verifySchema(ObjectStore.java:7731)
      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.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:101)
      at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy21.verifySchema(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:565)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:626)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:416)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.&lt;init&gt;(RetryingHMSHandler.java:78)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:84)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:6490)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.&lt;init&gt;(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:238)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.&lt;init&gt;(SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java:70)
      ... 28 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my hive-site.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?&gt;
   &lt;?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?&gt;
   &lt;configuration&gt;
  
       &lt;property&gt;
           &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL&lt;/name&gt;
           &lt;value&gt;jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hive?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&lt;/value&gt;
       &lt;/property&gt;
  
  
       &lt;property&gt;
           &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName&lt;/name&gt;
           &lt;value&gt;com.mysql.jdbc.Driver&lt;/value&gt;
       &lt;/property&gt;
  
       &lt;property&gt;
           &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName&lt;/name&gt;
           &lt;value&gt;hive&lt;/value&gt;
       &lt;/property&gt;
  
       &lt;property&gt;
           &lt;name&gt;javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword&lt;/name&gt;
           &lt;value&gt;password&lt;/value&gt;
       &lt;/property&gt;
  
   &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In order to fix the error, I've tried <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41939582/hive-unable-to-instantiate-org-apache-hadoop-hive-ql-metadata-sessionhivemetasto">Hive Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35449274/java-lang-runtimeexception-unable-to-instantiate-org-apache-hadoop-hive-ql-meta">Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient</a>. But I am still getting the same exceptions.</p>
  
  <p>I'm newbie to Hadoop and Hive, how could I fix the exception?
  Thanks!</p>