Hi Abshiek To get the cause of this error, you need to look at the failed mapreduce task logs.
Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: abhiTowson cal <abhishek.dod...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:08:33 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: ERROR hi all, What may be the different causes for getting this error. Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask Regards Abhishek