I'm quite comfortable hadoop and the associated lingo, been programming it via 
Java and via C++ streams for several years.  However, I have just started Hive 
for the first time...and I'm stuck.  I was following the "getting started" page 
on the apache site.  I got a far as this:

hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING);
FAILED: Error in metadata: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected 
exception caught.
NestedThrowables:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

If I look at the logs, I see the following.  I'm not sure how to proceed from 
here.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

$ cat /tmp/keithw/hive.log
2012-03-09 12:02:22,087 ERROR exec.DDLTask (SessionState.java:printError(365)) 
- FAILED: Error in metadata: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected 
exception caught.
NestedThrowables:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: 
javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected exception caught.
NestedThrowables:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createTable(Hive.java:476)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.createTable(DDLTask.java:3176)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:213)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:131)
        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:209)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:286)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:516)
        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:197)
Caused by: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected exception caught.
NestedThrowables:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at 
javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1186)
        at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:803)
        at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:698)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPMF(ObjectStore.java:234)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPersistenceManager(ObjectStore.java:261)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.initialize(ObjectStore.java:196)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.setConf(ObjectStore.java:171)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:62)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:354)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.executeWithRetry(HiveMetaStore.java:306)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:451)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:232)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.<init>(HiveMetaStore.java:197)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:108)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:1868)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:1878)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createTable(Hive.java:470)
        ... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        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 javax.jdo.JDOHelper$16.run(JDOHelper.java:1958)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invoke(JDOHelper.java:1953)
        at 
javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1159)
        ... 32 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerBundle(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:443)
        at 
org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerBundle(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:355)
        at 
org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerExtensions(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:215)
        at 
org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerExtensionPoints(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:156)
        at 
org.datanucleus.plugin.PluginManager.registerExtensionPoints(PluginManager.java:82)
        at org.datanucleus.OMFContext.<init>(OMFContext.java:156)
        at org.datanucleus.OMFContext.<init>(OMFContext.java:137)
        at 
org.datanucleus.ObjectManagerFactoryImpl.initialiseOMFContext(ObjectManagerFactoryImpl.java:132)
        at 
org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.initialiseProperties(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:363)
        at 
org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.<init>(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:307)
        at 
org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.createPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:255)
        at 
org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:182)
        ... 40 more

2012-03-09 12:02:22,090 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(365)) - 
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

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