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Paul Yang commented on HIVE-458: -------------------------------- Right, that does reproduce the error. > Setting fs.default.name incorrectly leads to meaningless error message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-458 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-458 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Configuration > Affects Versions: 0.3.0 > Reporter: Alan Gates > Assignee: Paul Yang > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.5.0 > > > In my hadoop-site.xml I accidentally set fs.default.name to > http://wilbur21.labs.corp.sp1.yahoo.com:8020 > instead of the proper: > hdfs://wilbur21.labs.corp.sp1.yahoo.com:8020 > The result was > {code} > hive> show tables; > FAILED: Unknown exception : null > FAILED: Unknown exception : null > Time taken: 0.035 seconds > hive> > {code} > It should give a meaningful error message. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.