The transform scripts (or executables) are run as separate processes, so it
sounds like Hive itself is blowing up. That would be consistent with your
script working fine outside Hive. The Hive or Hadoop logs might have clues.
So, it happens consistently with this one file? I would check to be sure
I am perplexed if I run a transform script on a file by itself, it runs
fine, outputs to standard out life is good. If I run the transform script
on that same file (with the path and filename being passed into the script
via transform so that the python script is doing the exact same thing) I
get
