Pradeep, you might be hitting HADOOP-5759 and the job is not getting initialized at all. Look in JobTracker logs for the jobid to confirm the same.
On 9/28/10 6:28 AM, "Pradeep Kamath" <prade...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: Here is some relevant stuff from /tmp/pradeepk/hive.logs - can't make much out of it: 2010-09-27 17:40:01,081 INFO exec.MapRedTask (SessionState.java:printInfo(268)) - Starting Job = job_201009251752_1341, Tracking URL = http://<hostname>:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201009251752_1341 2010-09-27 17:40:01,081 INFO exec.MapRedTask (SessionState.java:printInfo(268)) - Kill Command = /homes/pradeepk/hadoopcluster/hadoop/bin/../bin/hadoop job -Dmapred.job.tracker=<hostname>:50020 -kill job_201009251752_1341 2010-09-27 17:40:01,081 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #129 2010-09-27 17:40:01,083 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #129 2010-09-27 17:40:01,083 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobStatus 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,086 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #130 2010-09-27 17:40:02,090 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #130 2010-09-27 17:40:02,091 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobStatus 5 2010-09-27 17:40:02,092 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #131 2010-09-27 17:40:02,093 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #131 2010-09-27 17:40:02,094 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobStatus 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,094 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #132 2010-09-27 17:40:02,096 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #132 2010-09-27 17:40:02,096 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobProfile 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,096 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #133 2010-09-27 17:40:02,100 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #133 2010-09-27 17:40:02,100 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobCounters 4 2010-09-27 17:40:02,101 DEBUG mapred.Counters (Counters.java:<init>(151)) - Creating group org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator$ProgressCounter with nothing 2010-09-27 17:40:02,101 DEBUG mapred.Counters (Counters.java:getCounterForName(277)) - Adding CREATED_FILES 2010-09-27 17:40:02,103 INFO exec.MapRedTask (SessionState.java:printInfo(268)) - 2010-09-27 17:40:02,103 Stage-2 map = 100%, reduce = 100% 2010-09-27 17:40:02,104 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #134 2010-09-27 17:40:02,105 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #134 2010-09-27 17:40:02,106 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobStatus 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,106 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #135 2010-09-27 17:40:02,108 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #135 2010-09-27 17:40:02,108 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobCounters 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,109 DEBUG mapred.Counters (Counters.java:<init>(151)) - Creating group org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator$ProgressCounter with nothing 2010-09-27 17:40:02,109 DEBUG mapred.Counters (Counters.java:getCounterForName(277)) - Adding CREATED_FILES 2010-09-27 17:40:02,109 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:sendParam(469)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk sending #136 2010-09-27 17:40:02,111 DEBUG ipc.Client (Client.java:receiveResponse(504)) - IPC Client (47) connection to <hostname>/216.252.118.203:50020 from pradeepk got value #136 2010-09-27 17:40:02,111 DEBUG ipc.RPC (RPC.java:invoke(225)) - Call: getJobStatus 2 2010-09-27 17:40:02,112 ERROR exec.MapRedTask (SessionState.java:printError(277)) - Ended Job = job_201009251752_1341 with errors Ning Zhang wrote: >From the error info, it seems the 2nd job has been launched and failed. So I'm >assuming there are map tasks started? If not, you can find the error message >in the client log file /tmp/<userid>/hive.log at the machine running hive >after setting the hive.root.logger property Steven mentioned. On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Steven Wong wrote: >>>>> 2010-09-24 13:29:03,504 Stage-2 map = 100%, reduce = 100% >>>>> >>>>> Ended Job = job_201009241059_0282 with errors >>>>> >>>>> FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from >>>>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask >>>>> >>>>>