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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Error when connecting Hive Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:51:25 +0530 From: Manish <manishbh...@rocketmail.com> Reply-To: u...@hive.apache.org To: u...@hive.apache.org <u...@hive.apache.org> I am getting below error when connecting to hive shell. I thought it is because of log directory issue. But even fixing the directory permission the error still exists. manish@localhost:/tmp/manish$ hive Logging initialized using configuration in file:/etc/hive/conf.dist/hive-log4j.properties Hive history file=/tmp/manish/hive_job_log_b53b2f66-a751-4a9c-9e4d-6ee64156e21f_1189315217.txt Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/security/authentication/util/KerberosName at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.ensureInitialized(UserGroupInformation.java:214) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled(UserGroupInformation.java:277) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getLoginUser(UserGroupInformation.java:668) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser(UserGroupInformation.java:573) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure.getUGIForConf(HadoopShimsSecure.java:520) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.HadoopDefaultAuthenticator.setConf(HadoopDefaultAuthenticator.java:51) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:73) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:133) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveUtils.getAuthenticator(HiveUtils.java:365) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:304) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:669) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:208) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.security.authentication.util.KerberosName at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 17 more