Please see Edward's reply to 'Exception in hive startup' on Oct 13th. Try running with <install-dir>/bin/hive
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Stuart Smith <stu24m...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just starting with hive, and I ran into a newbie problem that didn't > have a solution via google. So I thought I'd record the solution for > posterity (and other hapless newbies) :) > > I've been using hadoop/hbase for a while, and have configured hadoop-env.sh > a bit here and there (to work with hbase, etc). At some point, I dropped the > $CLASSPATH off the end of the standard line: > > export > HADOOP_CLASSPATH=/home/stu/hbase/hbase-0.20.6.jar:/home/stu/hbase/hbase-0.20.6-test.jar:/home/stu/hbase/conf:/home/stu/hbase/lib/zookeeper-3.2.2.jar:$CLASSPATH > > So it became: > > # Extra Java CLASSPATH elements. Optional. > export > HADOOP_CLASSPATH=/home/stu/hbase/hbase-0.20.6.jar:/home/stu/hbase/hbase-0.20.6-test.jar:/home/stu/hbase/conf:/home/stu/hbase/lib/zookeeper-3.2.2.jar > > (probably when I added the hbase stuff or something). My hadoop/hbase set > up runs fine, so I never noticed. > > Well, if you do that, and you try to run the hive shell, you get the: > > s...@ubuntu-update:~/hive-0.6.0/bin/ext$ /home/stu/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop > jar /home/stu/hive-0.6.0/lib/hive-cli-0.6.0.jar > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:149) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) > ... 3 more > > error, even if you've followed the wiki correctly and set HADOOP_HOME and > HIVE_HOME correctly. Note the command line above is a little strange, > because I was debugging through the $HIVE_HOME/bin/hive script... (So I > printed out the classpath it was forming, set it by hand, ran the > instructions by hand, etc). > > This is installing from the hive tar (stable). But that doesn't matter. > > Anyways, hope the answer helps someone.. > > Best, > -stu > > > > > >
