cannot make branch-2.3.0 working

[parisni]

this issue is a duplicate of this thread
branch-2.3.0 does not work on our HDP 2.6.5. However, llap is working fine.
After building the branch, and configuring all the aspects I am having
this stack trace:

at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.llap.LlapSessionCatalog.<init>(LlapSessionCatalog.scala:49)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.llap.LlapSessionStateBuilder.catalog$lzycompute(LlapSessionStateBuilder.scala:33)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.llap.LlapSessionStateBuilder.catalog(LlapSessionStateBuilder.scala:32)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.llap.LlapSessionStateBuilder.catalog(LlapSessionStateBuilder.scala:26)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveSessionStateBuilder$$anon$1.<init>(HiveSessionStateBuilder.scala:68)
at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveSessionStateBuilder.analyzer(HiveSessionStateBuilder.scala:68)
at org.apache.spark.sql.internal.BaseSessionStateBuilder$$anonfun$build$2.apply(BaseSessionStateBuilder.scala:293)
at org.apache.spark.sql.internal.BaseSessionStateBuilder$$anonfun$build$2.apply(BaseSessionStateBuilder.scala:293)
at org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SessionState.analyzer$lzycompute(SessionState.scala:79)
at org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SessionState.analyzer(SessionState.scala:79)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.analyzed$lzycompute(QueryExecution.scala:57)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.analyzed(QueryExecution.scala:55)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.QueryExecution.assertAnalyzed(QueryExecution.scala:47)
at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset$.ofRows(Dataset.scala:74)
at org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession.sql(SparkSession.scala:638)
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 py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:214)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)```