Error 157 is actually 'could not connect to storage engine' and the fact that MySQL fails to report that error correctly is a bug: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=44817
The case described in that bug mentions that you get the error when you try to query a table in NDB when the cluster is still down.
So I'm just guessing, but I would conclude that your cluster is not started. Either you missed starting one of the nodes, or else something went wrong starting one of the nodes.