This should be documented in README.txt On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Steven Wong <sw...@netflix.com> wrote:
> You need to run hive_root/build/dist/bin/hive, not hive_root/bin/hive. > > > > > > *From:* hdev ml [mailto:hde...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:18 PM > *To:* hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org > *Subject:* Exception in hive startup > > > > Hi all, > > I installed Hadoop 0.20.2 and installed hive 0.5.0. > > I followed all the instructions on Hive's getting started page for setting > up environment variables like HADOOP_HOME > > When I run from command prompt in the hive installation folder as > "bin/hive" it gives me following exception > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:149) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) > ... 3 more > > Please note that my Hadoop installation is working fine. > > What could be the cause of this? Anybody has any idea? > > Thanks > Harshad >
