diff --git a/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java b/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
index e8c76bcccd4..301dd230ba1 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
+++ b/spark/src/main/java/org/apache/zeppelin/spark/SparkInterpreter.java
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ private boolean useHiveContext() {
   private boolean hiveClassesArePresent() {
     try {
       this.getClass().forName("org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveSessionState");
-      this.getClass().forName("org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveSharedState");
       this.getClass().forName("org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf");
       return true;
     } catch (ClassNotFoundException | NoClassDefFoundError e) {
@@ -355,7 +354,7 @@ public Object createSparkSession() {
             new Class[]{ String.class, String.class},
             new Object[]{ "spark.sql.catalogImplementation", "in-memory"});
         sparkSession = Utils.invokeMethod(builder, "getOrCreate");
-        logger.info("Created Spark session with Hive support");
+        logger.info("Created Spark session with Hive support use in-memory catalogImplementation");
       }
     } else {
       sparkSession = Utils.invokeMethod(builder, "getOrCreate");