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Navis resolved HIVE-2152. ------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Confirmed fixed > Hive throws an NPE if hive-default.xml. > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2152 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2152 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Diagnosability > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Joey Echeverria > > If you don't have hive-default.xml in your classpath, you get the following > error when you try to show tables in the the hive shell: > hive> show tables; > FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.NullPointerException > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > It would be a lot more useful to print message indicating that > hive-default.xml. This problem will become mute if HIVE-1530 gets accepted. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira