Ok, by now it's getting very strange. I deleted the entire installation and restarted from scratch and now I'm getting a similar error even though I'm going through the pig_cassandra script.
2010-08-17 15:54:10,049 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 0% complete 2010-08-17 15:55:10,032 [Thread-10] INFO org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor - Auto DiskAccessMode determined to be standard 2010-08-17 15:55:24,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - HadoopJobId: job_201008111350_0020 2010-08-17 15:55:24,652 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - More information at: http://hmaster:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201008111350_0020 2010-08-17 15:56:05,690 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 33% complete 2010-08-17 15:56:09,874 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 100% complete 2010-08-17 15:56:09,874 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - 1 map reduce job(s) failed! 2010-08-17 15:56:10,261 [main] INFO org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLauncher - Failed! 2010-08-17 15:56:10,351 [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 2997: Unable to recreate exception from backed error: Error: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.thrift.TBase which is a bit different from my original error, but on the backend I get a classic ClassNotFoundException. Any ideas? -- Christian Decker Software Architect http://blog.snyke.net
