I was able to use Hive successfully a few weeks ago. When I tried again recently, I ran into issues and suspected that the problems may have been related to Hive's metastore. For better or worse, I tried to simply delete the "metastore_db" folder and start fresh. However, the "metastore_db" folder does not seem to be automatically created I run Hive and I still see the same error messages that I saw before deleting the "metastore_db" folder.
Just for reference: I'm running hadoop on Mac OS X in psuedo-distributed mode and the mapreduce jobs seem to complete without any issue. I do not see any significant error or warning messages in datanode, task tracker, job tracker, name node, etc. Also, as far as I can tell, Derby is installed and none of the write permissions should be an issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------- Error from the Hive log: NestedThrowables: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected exception caught. NestedThrowables: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getDatabase(Hive.java:1028) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.databaseExists(Hive.java:1013) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.showTables(DDLTask.java:1691) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:289) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:130) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1063) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:900) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:748) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:164) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:456) 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.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:186) Caused by: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Unexpected exception caught. NestedThrowables: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1186) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:803) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:698) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPMF(ObjectStore.java:234) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPersistenceManager(ObjectStore.java:261) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.initialize(ObjectStore.java:196) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.setConf(ObjectStore.java:171) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:354) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.executeWithRetry(HiveMetaStore.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:451) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:232) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.<init>(HiveMetaStore.java:197) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:108) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:1855) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:1865) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getDatabase(Hive.java:1024) ... 16 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 javax.jdo.JDOHelper$16.run(JDOHelper.java:1958) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invoke(JDOHelper.java:1953) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1159) ... 33 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerBundle(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:443) at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerBundle(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:355) at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerExtensions(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:215) at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.registerExtensionPoints(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:156) at org.datanucleus.plugin.PluginManager.registerExtensionPoints(PluginManager.java:82) at org.datanucleus.OMFContext.<init>(OMFContext.java:156) at org.datanucleus.OMFContext.<init>(OMFContext.java:137) at org.datanucleus.ObjectManagerFactoryImpl.initialiseOMFContext(ObjectManagerFactoryImpl.java:132) at org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.initialiseProperties(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:363) at org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.<init>(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:307) at org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.createPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:255) at org.datanucleus.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:182) ... 41 more 2011-06-30 17:05:05,060 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(343)) - FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask