Hi Shaik There is some error while MR jobs are running. To get the root cause please post in the error log from the failed task.
You can browse the Job Tracker web UI and choose the right job Id and drill down to the failed tasks to get the error logs. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: shaik ahamed <shaik5...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 17:09:26 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: hi all *Hi users,* ** * As im selecting the distinct column from the vender Hive table * ** *Im getting the below error plz help me in this* ** *hive> select distinct supplier from vender_sample;* Total MapReduce jobs = 1 Launching Job 1 out of 1 Number of reduce tasks not specified. Estimated from input data size: 1 In order to change the average load for a reducer (in bytes): set hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=<number> In order to limit the maximum number of reducers: set hive.exec.reducers.max=<number> In order to set a constant number of reducers: set mapred.reduce.tasks=<number> Kill Command = /usr/local/hadoop/bin/../bin/hadoop job -Dmapred.job.tracker=md-trngpoc1:54311 -kill job_201207061535_0005 Hadoop job information for Stage-1: number of mappers: 1; number of reducers: 1 2012-07-06 17:03:13,978 Stage-1 map = 0%, reduce = 0% 2012-07-06 17:03:20,001 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 0% 2012-07-06 17:04:20,248 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 0% 2012-07-06 17:04:23,262 Stage-1 map = 100%, reduce = 100% Ended Job = job_201207061535_0005 with errors Error during job, obtaining debugging information... Examining task ID: task_201207061535_0005_m_000002 (and more) from job job_201207061535_0005 Task with the most failures(4): ----- Task ID: task_201207061535_0005_r_000000 FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask MapReduce Jobs Launched: Job 0: Map: 1 Reduce: 1 HDFS Read: 99143041 HDFS Write: 0 FAIL Total MapReduce CPU Time Spent: 0 msec Regards shaik.