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Carl Steinbach reopened HIVE-46: -------------------------------- > derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar should be included in hive/lib > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-46 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-46 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Environment: Cent OS 5 x86-64 JDK 1.6 > Reporter: Edward Capriolo > Priority: Minor > > Attempting to use the Derby ClientDriver will cause a null pointer exception > because derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar are not in lib. > hive> show tables; > 08/10/02 15:17:12 INFO hive.metastore: Trying to connect to metastore > with URI jdbc:derby://nyhadoop1:1527/metastore_db > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: java.lang.NullPointerException > 08/10/02 15:17:12 ERROR ql.Driver: FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: > java.lang.NullPointerException > derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar should probably be put in the hive/lib > directory. Also this type of exception could happen often with different JDBC > libraries the exception should be trapped better -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira