Just to confirm, you are no longer getting the permission error, right?
Have you checked the log files under /var/log/hive on the host where
Hive Metastore is located?

Yusaku

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Artem Ervits <[email protected]> wrote:
> I set it to 1777 and it still wouldn't start. It's failing on the metastore 
> start, is there a way to reset metastore alone?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yusaku Sako [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 6:03 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: problems with an installation
>
> What's the permission on the /tmp directory itself?
> It should be 1777.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Artem Ervits <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I originally installed an ambari-provisioned cluster with version 1.2.2.5.
>> Hive/HCat service was never working from the beginning. I upgraded the
>> server to 1.2.3.7 with hopes it had a fix for the issues I'm having
>> but to no avail. I tried to figure it out on my own as well and I
>> wasn't successful. If anyone know what's happening during service
>> start, the message is:
>>
>>
>>
>> su - hive -c  'env HADOOP_HOME=/usr
>> JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun.x86_64 /tmp/startMetastore.sh
>> /var/log/hive/hive.out /var/log/hive/hive.log
>> /application/run/hive/hive.pid /etc/hive/conf.server ']/Exec[su - hive
>> -c  'env HADOOP_HOME=/usr
>> JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun.x86_64 /tmp/startMetastore.sh
>> /var/log/hive/hive.out /var/log/hive/hive.log
>> /application/run/hive/hive.pid /etc/hive/conf.server ']/returns: env:
>> /tmp/startMetastore.sh: Permission denied
>>
>>
>>
>> where is this permission issue coming from? I chose to use a password
>> for metastore with all kinds of characters.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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