Troubleshooting
Problem
When Cognos Analytics is configured to use SSL and the Oracle JRE, connecting to a Hive JDBC data source that uses Kerberos and cached credentials fails with an error such as:
GSSException: No valid credentials provided (Mechanism level: Attempt to obtain new INITIATE credentials failed! (null))
Caused by: com.ibm.ws.security.authentication.AuthenticationException
at com.ibm.ws.security.authentication.jaas.modules.Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.inVokeMethod(Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.java:160)
at com.ibm.ws.security.authentication.jaas.modules.Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.login(Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.java:114)
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 javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:755)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.access$000(LoginContext.java:195)
at com.ibm.ws.security.authentication.jaas.modules.Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.inVokeMethod(Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.java:160)
at com.ibm.ws.security.authentication.jaas.modules.Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.login(Krb5LoginModuleWrapper.java:114)
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 javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:755)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.access$000(LoginContext.java:195)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:682)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:680)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invokePriv(LoginContext.java:680)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.login(LoginContext.java:587)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSUtil.login(GSSUtil.java:258)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5Util.getTicket(Krb5Util.java:158)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential$1.run(Krb5InitCredential.java:335)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential$1.run(Krb5InitCredential.java:331)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential.getTgt(Krb5InitCredential.java:330)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:680)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invokePriv(LoginContext.java:680)
at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.login(LoginContext.java:587)
at sun.security.jgss.GSSUtil.login(GSSUtil.java:258)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5Util.getTicket(Krb5Util.java:158)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential$1.run(Krb5InitCredential.java:335)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential$1.run(Krb5InitCredential.java:331)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5InitCredential.getTgt(Krb5InitCredential.java:330)
If the connection is tested outside of Cognos by using a tool like JDBCINFO, the connection succeeds.
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Modified date:
15 January 2026
UID
ibm16605849