The best first step is enable logging to the console and then try the operation again through the CLI:
hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console or if you want even more logging info try hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=DEBUG,console Thanks. Carl On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:29 AM, wd <w...@wdicc.com> wrote: > hi, > > I've setup a single node hadoop and hive. And can create table in hive, but > can't drop table, hive cli will hang there, nothing more infos. > > hive-0.6.0-bin > hadoop-0.20.2 > jre1.6.0_23 > postgresql-9.0-801.jdbc4.jar (have tried postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar) > pgsql 9.0.2 > > How to find what's wrong happed? thx. >