i used to be able to run Drill 0.7 but that fails at startup with the same problem.
bin/sqlline -u jdbc:drill:zk=local Drill log directory /var/log/drill does not exist or is not writable, defaulting to /opt/apache-drill-0.8.0/log 2015-04-01 13:13:42.792 java[1622:7271] Unable to load realm mapping info from SCDynamicStore Apr 01, 2015 1:13:46 PM org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler initialize INFO: Initiating Jersey application, version Jersey: 2.8 2014-04-29 01:25:26... Error: Failure while attempting to connect to Drill. (state=,code=0) sqlline version 1.1.6 0: jdbc:drill:zk=local> and i see no errors in sqlline.log java -version java version "1.7.0_55" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_55-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.55-b03, mixed mode) sw_vers -productVersion 10.10.2
