In our case the problem appeared to be related to Hive HBase handler being compiled with outdated jars. The solution (e.g. for HBase 0.89.20100830) was to make sure $HIVE_SOURCE/lib contains both hbase-0.89.20100830.jar and hbase-0.89.20100830-tests.jar and no other versions of hbase jars.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:15 PM, John Sichi <jsi...@facebook.com> wrote: > 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 > >