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Zheng Shao commented on HADOOP-4473: ------------------------------------ The class org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState is in /hadoop-0.17.2.1/contrib/hive/dist/bin/../lib/hive_exec.jar That jar file is in the classpath as printed by bin/hive. Can you open /hadoop-0.17.2.1/bin/hadoop and add one line before the last line (The echo line): ... # run it echo "$JAVA" $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $CLASS "$@" exec "$JAVA" $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $CLASS "$@" Let's see what is actually passed to Java. > I Can't run bin/hive > --------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4473 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4473 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: contrib/hive > Affects Versions: 0.17.2 > Environment: Redhat hadoop-0.17.1 > Reporter: YihueyChyi > > When I run bin/hive > Then I get the message > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/session/SessionState > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:194) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:220) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) > ... 7 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.