Try enabling some kind of logging on the cli by doing either of the following, I would go with INFO first and then if that does not provide enough information then do DEBUG...
bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=DEBUG,console On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM, R J <rj201...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed HIVE version 0.8.1 on Cigwin. I also installed Hadoop 1.0.4. I > have set the JAVA_HOME and HIVE_HOME environment variables. > > I started HIVE and tried to run a HIVE command but it stalls there. > $ pwd > /usr/local/hive-0.8.1-bin > $ echo $HIVE_HOME > /usr/local/hive-0.8.1-bin > $ bin/hive > WARNING: org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter is deprecated. Please > use org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter in all the log4j.properties > files. > Logging initialized using configuration in > jar:file:/C:/cygwin/usr/local/hive-0.8.1-bin/lib/hive-common-0.8.1.jar!/hive-log4j.properties > Hive history > file=/tmp/W19064/hive_job_log_W12345_201211141624_754894100.txt > hive> CREATE TABLE x (a INT); > > Is there any way I could troubleshoot it? Thanks a lot. >
