Hello, I am encountering the exact issue that a user posted about last month (with no response): http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-dev/201103.mbox/%3caanlktimf6cr4v3-x+memr9po7dkmlwv23jf38x2+k...@mail.gmail.com%3E#archives
I have been working my way through the Hive GettingStarted guide ( http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/GettingStarted#Running_Hive), but when I try to create a table ( http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/GettingStarted#DDL_Operations), I get this error: hive> CREATE TABLE pokes (foo INT, bar STRING); FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException File file:/user/hive/warehouse/pokes does not exist.) FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask I believe my HDFS is set up properly: kostmo@leetbook:~$ /home/kostmo/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/ Found 1 items drwxr-xr-x - root root 4096 2011-03-28 17:22 /user/hive kostmo@leetbook:~$ /home/kostmo/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop fs -ls /user/hive Found 1 items drwxrwxr-x - root root 4096 2011-03-28 17:22 /user/hive/warehouse Karl
