Hi, please try to open /tmp/<username>/hive.log and find the last exception.
Zheng On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Rosario <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to learn Hive, but am having problems as I am getting a > lot of error messages that do not hint at how to resolve whatever > problem is occurring in my setup. > > I can successfully create a table, but then I cannot load any data > into it, or even use the command "show tables." I get: > > FAILED: Unknown exception: null > > What is the likely problem? > > These are my configurations: > hive-site.xml > <configuration> > <property> > <name>hive.metastore.local</name> > <value>true</value> > <description>this is local store</description> > </property> > <property> > <name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name> > <value>/user/hive/warehouse</value> > <description>default location for Hive tables</description> > </property> > </configuration> > > hadoop-site.xml > <configuration> > <property> > <name>hadoop.tmp.dir</name> > <value>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>fs.default.name</name> > <value>hdfs://localhost:54310</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>mapred.job.tracker</name> > <value>hdfs://localhost:54311</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>dfs.replication</name> > <value>8</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name> > <value>-Xmx512m</value> > </property> > </configuration> > -- Yours, Zheng
