Metaexception [Version information not found in metastore] during cluster [re]start

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Trying to configure new external metastore and running into the following exception during cluster initialization - 

Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. )
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.<init>(RetryingHMSHandler.java:83)
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:92)
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newRetryingHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:6902)
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:164)
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(SessionHiveMetaStoreClient.java:70)
 
	... 96 more
 
Caused by: MetaException(message:Version information not found in metastore. )
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.checkSchema(ObjectStore.java:7810)
 
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.verifySchema(ObjectStore.java:7788)
 
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
 
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccess