The HBase folks took a look at this one just now and updated JIRA with an explanation of what's going wrong. Sounds like the workaround may be to set the zookeeper port explicitly, e.g.
-hiveconf hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort=2181 If that works, we can update JIRA with the workaround. JVS On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Leo Alekseyev wrote: > We are running into the issue reported in HIVE-1597 (Hive CLI returns > MasterNotRunningException with HBase 0.89.x) when using Hive from > trunk and HBase 0.89.20100830, StumbleUpon branch. > > Does anyone here have possible workarounds for this issue, or does > anyone successfully run Hive with HBase 0.89.x, and if so, what exact > versions are you using?.. > > Thanks, > --Leo