Hi Shaik What is your metastore db? If it is the default derby db, please ensure that you have the right permissions on the directory. If you had made any permission changes recently, reverting those should resolve the issue.
Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: shaik ahamed <shaik5...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:24:13 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: unable to view the data in the hive tables Hi All, Please help me in gng forward with below error ,as im unable to see the table data . hive> show tables; Shutting down due to severe error. FAILED: Error in metadata: javax.jdo.JDODataStoreException: Failed to start database 'metastore_db', see the next exception for details. NestedThrowables: java.sql.SQLException: Failed to start database 'metastore_db', see the next exception for details. FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask Regards, shaik.