Hi, I installed Java 1.8.0_51, Hadoop 1.2.1 and Hive 1.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, I do get the below exception when I start the hive shell or the beeline. How do I get around this problem?
analysis@analysis-vm:~/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ bin/hive Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger.log(Lorg/slf4j/Marker;Ljava/lang/String;ILjava/lang/String;[Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Throwable;)V at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLocationAwareLog.warn(SLF4JLocationAwareLog.java:185) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.logConfigLocation(LogUtils.java:145) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4jDefault(LogUtils.java:128) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4jCommon(LogUtils.java:77) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4j(LogUtils.java:58) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:637) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:621) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:160) ----- I copied the slf4j jar files to the hive lib folder and still get the same error. /home/analysis/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.12.jar /home/analysis/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.12.jar ----- Here is the environment I am executing. analysis@analysis-vm:~/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ echo $HADOOP_HOME /home/analysis/Installations/hadoop-1.2.1 analysis@analysis-vm:~/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ echo $HIVE_HOME /home/analysis/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin analysis@analysis-vm:~/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ java -version java version "1.8.0_51" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode) analysis@analysis-vm:~/Installations/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ uname -a Linux analysis-vm 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks, Praveen