Hi, I am also facing the same issue (hive-0.7, hbase-0.90.1, hadoop-0.20.2).
Any help? -amit ________________________________ From: Bennie Schut <bsc...@ebuddy.com> To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> Sent: Wed, 9 March, 2011 4:39:49 AM Subject: hive hbase handler metadata NullPointerException Hi All, I was trying out hbase 0.89.20100924 with hive trunk with hadoop 0.20.2 When I'm running a simple insert I get this: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:354) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.configure(MapRunner.java:34) ... 10 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88) ... 13 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Map operator initialization failed at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:121) ... 18 more Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.initializeOp(FileSinkOperator.java:335) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:433) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.initializeOp(SelectOperator.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:433) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TableScanOperator.initializeOp(TableScanOperator.java:133) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.initializeOp(MapOperator.java:444) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:98) ... 18 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FileSinkOperator.initializeOp(FileSinkOperator.java:280) ... 30 moreinsert overwrite table hbase_table_1 select cldr_id, iso_date from calendar; I could create the table just fine. like : CREATE TABLE hbase_table_1(key int, value string) STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler' WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,cf1:val") TBLPROPERTIES ("hbase.table.name" = "xyz"); I've set the properties hbase.master, hbase.zookeeper.quorum, hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort should that be enough? Thanks Bennie.