Thanks Nicolas. You are right. I looked at my hadoop classpath and found it included an antlr-3.2.jar jar in the Cassandra library (My hadoop cluster is integrated with a Cassandra cluster).
Thanks, John 2011/11/10 Nicolas Lalevée <nicolas.lale...@hibnet.org> > > Le 4 nov. 2011 à 17:19, Jian Fang a écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > I installed hive 0.7.1 to work with Hadoop 0.20.2. I have set up > HADOOP_HOME and HIVE_HOME. I tried to use the Hive shell and got the > following error: > > > > [hadoop@dnjsrcha01 hive]$ bin/hive > > Hive history file=/tmp/hadoop/hive_job_log_hadoop_201111041218_ > 2145572589.txt > > hive> show tables; > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: type > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mKW_SHOW(HiveLexer.java:1234) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mTokens(HiveLexer.java:5942) > > at org.antlr.runtime.Lexer.nextToken(Lexer.java:84) > > at > org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.fillBuffer(CommonTokenStream.java:95) > > at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.LT > (CommonTokenStream.java:238) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:521) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:436) > > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:327) > > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:736) > > 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:156) > > > > What was wrong and how to get it working? > > I don't have the same setup as you, but I got the same error. This is a > classpath issue and the version of antlr. Locally I had in my classpath > antlr 3.3. Downgrading to 3.0.1 fixed this. 3.0.1 is the version I saw in > the build of the 0.7.1 tag of hive (I also saw antlr-2.7.7 is that same > compile classpath, but it doesn't work either). > > Hope it helps, > Nicolas > >