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 ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com keithwiley.com music.keithwiley.com "The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." -- Mark Twain ________________________________________________________________________________