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Sreekanth Ramakrishnan commented on HIVE-1633: ---------------------------------------------- I was taking a look at reproducing the issue. The core reason why the exception is present is due to following. * Input format is passed a set of input path. * These set of path contains two kind of files, table data files and scratch/tmp files which are created by hive in hdfs. * CombineHiveInputFormat tries to compute splits in these temp/scratch file, which causes the getPartitionDescFromPathRecursively to fail. Causing the query to fail. I hope this helps, I am still looking at the code, and trying to figure out where the actual addition to input paths are done. So basically I can back track from there. Any help on this would be great. > CombineHiveInputFormat fails with "cannot find dir for emptyFile" > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1633 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1633 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Clients > Reporter: Amareshwari Sriramadasu > Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.