How do I load hiveContext into Zeppelin?

I am new to zeppelin notebook. But one thing I noticed is that unlike the spark shell, the hiveContext is not automatically created in zeppelin when I start the laptop.

And when I tried to manually load the hiveContext in zeppelin like:

import org.apache.spark.sql.hive._
import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext

val hiveContext = new HiveContext(sc)

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am getting this error

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.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.<init>(ClientWrapper.scala:204)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.IsolatedClientLoader.createClient(IsolatedClientLoader.scala:249)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:327)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive(HiveContext.scala:237)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.setConf(HiveContext.scala:441)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.defaultOverrides(HiveContext.scala:226)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:229)
    at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:101)
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    at $iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC.<init>(<console>:42)

      

        
        
        
      

    

I think the error means that the previous metastore_db does not allow overriding the new one.

I am using spark 1.6.1

Any help would be appreciated.