Hi, I get this exception when I try to join two hive tables or even when I use
a specific WHERE clause. "SELECT *" from any individual table seems to work
fine. Any idea what is missing here. I am on hive version hive-0.7.0-cdh3u0.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not create a Path from an empty string
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.checkPathArg(Path.java:82)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:90)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:50)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.copyRemoteFiles(JobClient.java:608)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.copyAndConfigureFiles(JobClient.java:713)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.copyAndConfigureFiles(JobClient.java:637)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.access$300(JobClient.java:170)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:848)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$2.run(JobClient.java:833)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
at
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1115)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:833)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:807)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:657)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:123)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:130)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1063)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:900)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:748)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:164)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:456)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:186)
Job Submission failed with exception 'java.lang.IllegalArgumentException(Can
not create a Path from an empty string)'
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask
