HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH interferes with startup of Hive Web Interface ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1294 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1294 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Web UI Affects Versions: 0.5.0 Reporter: Dilip Joseph Priority: Minor The Hive Webserver fails to startup with the following error message, if HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH environment variable is set (works fine if unset). $ build/dist/bin/hive --service hwi Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Error opening job jar: -libjars at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:90) Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:114) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:133) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:88) Slightly modifying the command line to launch hadoop in hwi.sh solves the problem: $ diff bin/ext/hwi.sh /tmp/new-hwi.sh 28c28 < exec $HADOOP jar $AUX_JARS_CMD_LINE ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@" --- > exec $HADOOP jar ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $AUX_JARS_CMD_LINE $HIVE_OPTS "$@" -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.