hi,
I am answering to my own question thinking this might help someone facing same problem.
Problem was with my "/etc/hosts" file.
So anyone facing same problem can look into "/etc/hosts" file and make sure that name of host is same
everywhere e.g. even in hadoop conf files.
For settings hostname and all one can have a look on http://getsatisfaction.com/cloudera/topics/shuffle_error_exceeded_max_failed_unique_fetches

Thanks & Regards
Guru Prasad
~guru

On 10/19/2010 01:55 PM, Guru Prasad wrote:
 Hi,
When running any query except "show tables" I am getting following error:
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FAILED: Unknown exception: Error while making MR scratch directory - check filesystem config (null)

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I have reformatted the namenode still I am getting above error.

So, please help me in fixing this problem.
I have set up hadoop in distributed mode.


Relevant configuration is :
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<property>
<name>hive.exec.scratchdir</name>
<value>/tmp/hive-${user.name}</value>
<description>Scratch space for Hive jobs</description>
</property>
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Thanks & Regards
Guru Prasad
~guru
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