hi! what do you mean? are you using hive view as lookup table?
if it is so, it is a known issue, check this out, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KYLIN-1077 best regards! [email protected] From: 陈佛林 Date: 2016-04-13 16:51 To: dev Subject: build cube error all job at yarn are SUCCESS. 2016-04-13 15:54:58,765 WARN [http-bio-7070-exec-1] service.CacheService:108 : skip cleaning cache for 668468ba-f470-4c37-9b12-d66aa44cef30 2016-04-13 15:54:58,903 ERROR [pool-5-thread-6] execution.AbstractExecutable:62 : error execute HadoopShellExecutable{id=4e9d2b2a-4f20-4b35-9dc6-bf2185f43486-02, name=Build Dimension Dictionary, state=RUNNING} java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.kylin.source.hive.HiveTable.getSignature(HiveTable.java:71) at org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.SnapshotTable.<init>(SnapshotTable.java:64) at org.apache.kylin.dict.lookup.SnapshotManager.buildSnapshot(SnapshotManager.java:89) at org.apache.kylin.cube.CubeManager.buildSnapshotTable(CubeManager.java:208) at org.apache.kylin.cube.cli.DictionaryGeneratorCLI.processSegment(DictionaryGeneratorCLI.java:59) at org.apache.kylin.cube.cli.DictionaryGeneratorCLI.processSegment(DictionaryGeneratorCLI.java:42) at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.steps.CreateDictionaryJob.run(CreateDictionaryJob.java:56) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:84) at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.common.HadoopShellExecutable.doWork(HadoopShellExecutable.java:60) at org.apache.kylin.job.execution.AbstractExecutable.execute(AbstractExecutable.java:114) at org.apache.kylin.job.execution.DefaultChainedExecutable.doWork(DefaultChainedExecutable.java:50) at org.apache.kylin.job.execution.AbstractExecutable.execute(AbstractExecutable.java:114) at org.apache.kylin.job.impl.threadpool.DefaultScheduler$JobRunner.run(DefaultScheduler.java:124) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.HadoopUtil.fixWindowsPath(HadoopUtil.java:78) at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.HadoopUtil.makeURI(HadoopUtil.java:70) at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.HadoopUtil.getFileSystem(HadoopUtil.java:65) at org.apache.kylin.engine.mr.DFSFileTable.getSizeAndLastModified(DFSFileTable.java:78) at org.apache.kylin.source.hive.HiveTable.getSignature(HiveTable.java:56) ... 16 more
