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Jeff Hammerbacher commented on HIVE-23:
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Hey,
Any chance we could toss a more informative error message in here for the next
release? I've seen a few new users stumble on this error, as it's pretty
cryptic.
Later,
Jeff
> Hive should fail to start if it cannot get an instance of the filesystem
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-23
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-23
> Project: Hadoop Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
>
> Hey,
> If I try to start Hive without my HDFS instance running, and Hive isn't able
> to start it up on its own, it should fail. Instead, I get a working Hive
> shell, but any query returns
> FAILED: Unknown exception : null
> FAILED: Unknown exception : null
> If I check "/tmp/{user.name}/hive.log", the error shows that the fs object
> was never assigned correctly, resulting in an NPE when it is referenced:
> 2008-10-29 17:01:08,659 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(242)) -
> FAILED: Unknown exception : null
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.removeScratchDir(Context.java:72)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.close(Driver.java:287)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:131)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:147)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:244)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:165)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54)
> 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:68)
> Either the error message needs to be more informative or Hive should fail if
> it can't find the persistent store it needs. I can imagine wanting to run the
> Hive shell against the metastore only, so perhaps straight failure without
> the fs isn't the best option. Up to the Hive team.
> Regards,
> Jeff
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