Vikas,
Looks like your metadata is corrupted. Can you paste the output of
following:
hive> describe formatted aircel_obd;

Ashutosh

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:46, Vikas Srivastava
<vikas.srivast...@one97.net>wrote:

> hey thanks for reply,
>
> i m using hadoop 0.20.2,
> and hive: 0.7.0
>
> i have install hive on new server and making that use readonly ,
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Chinna <chinna...@huawei.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>    Can u post some more details like which version u r using and what
>> sequence of queries u have executed.****
>>
>> When I checked the trunk code this exception will come when getCols()
>> returns null. Check u r metadata is in good state or not.****
>>
>> Thanks****
>>
>> Chinna Rao Lalam****
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Vikas Srivastava* <vikas.srivast...@one97.net>
>> Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM
>> Subject: Problem in hive
>> To: user@hive.apache.org
>>
>>
>> HI team,
>>
>>
>> i m facing this problem.
>>
>> show tables is running fine but when i run below query.
>>
>> hive> select * from aircel_obd;
>> FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null)
>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.checkValidity(Table.java:162)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:886)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getTable(Hive.java:787)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.getMetaData(SemanticAnalyzer.java:893)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:7203)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:240)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:428)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:336)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:901)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:253)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:210)
>>         at
>> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:401)
>>         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:660)
>>         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:156)
>>
>>
>> --
>> With Regards
>> Vikas Srivastava
>>
>> DWH & Analytics Team****
>>
>> Mob:+91 9560885900
>> One97 | Let's get talking !****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> With Regards
>> Vikas Srivastava
>>
>> DWH & Analytics Team****
>>
>> Mob:+91 9560885900
>> One97 | Let's get talking !****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>
>
>
> --
> With Regards
> Vikas Srivastava
>
> DWH & Analytics Team
> Mob:+91 9560885900
> One97 | Let's get talking !
>
>

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