Eugene Koifman created HIVE-5198: ------------------------------------ Summary: WebHCat returns exitcode 143 (w/o an explanation) Key: HIVE-5198 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5198 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: WebHCat Affects Versions: 0.11.0 Reporter: Eugene Koifman
Filing this bug mostly to help anyone trying to decipher 143 error code which does not appear in the source code. In 0.12 error reporting was improved and this reports a stacktrace. This error code means that Metastore client could not connect to the metastore. This is likely a config issue with hive.metastore.uris not being set. The message might look like this: {"statement":"use default; show table extended like xyz;","error":"unable to show table: xyz","exec":{"stdout":"","stderr":"","exitcode":143}} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira