How to recover from errors in Hive interactive mode

Lately, working with a team offshore on the same instance of Hive, I would get errors like:

hive> show tables;

FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient

FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

hive> select count(*) from json_topic1;                                                                                                         FAILED: SemanticException Unable to fetch table json_topic1          

hive> 

I was told that generally we get this exception if we  the hive console not terminated properly. 

The fix:

Run the jps command, look for "RunJar" process and kill it using 

kill -9 <RunJarprocessId> command