HiveMetaStore Failed to Start in Cloudera Manager: cmf.service.config.ConfigGenException: Unable to generate config file creds.localjceks

Recently I was dealing with an issues that HiveMetaStore failed to start in a Cloudera Manager managed environment. It failed with below errors:

Caused by: com.cloudera.cmf.service.config.ConfigGenException: Unable to generate config file creds.localjceks
        at com.cloudera.cmf.service.config.JceksConfigFileGenerator.generate(JceksConfigFileGenerator.java:63)
        at com.cloudera.cmf.service.HandlerUtil.emitConfigFiles(HandlerUtil.java:133)
        at com.cloudera.cmf.service.AbstractRoleHandler.generateConfiguration(AbstractRoleHandler.java:887)

This problem is very common if you have the following misconfiguration in your cluster: 1. Wrong version of Java being used. For a list of supported version of Java by Cloudera, please refer to below link: CDH and Cloudera Manager Supported JDK Versions 2. Different version of Java used across the cluster hosts. So run:

java -version

and check symlinks under /usr/java/jdk****-cloudera to confirm they are consistent across the whole cluster. After all above were performed, try to restart failed service, most likely the issue should be resolved. If not, please let me know in the comments below.