Can u share your hive-site.xml ? What meta store r u using ? Also try this to get additional debug messages that u can use to analyze the problem
>From your linux command prompt run the following and tell us what u see. Also >hive-site.xml please /path/to/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console -e "show databases" From: Cyril Bogus <cyrilbo...@gmail.com<mailto:cyrilbo...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:19 AM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Getting Started Hi, I am currently running hadoop 1.0.4 and hive 0.10.0 also I have HADOOP_HOME set to /home/hadoop and HIVE_HOME to /home/hive along with JAVA_HOME also to the right location. and I would like to run the hive command line but I keep getting the following error when I try to run a simple query like show databases; 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:/home/hive/lib/hive-common-0.10.0.jar!/hive-log4j.properties Hive history file=/tmp/cyrille/hive_job_log_cyrille_201305021317_1253522258.txt hive> show databases; Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: type at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mKW_SHOW(HiveLexer.java:1305) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mTokens(HiveLexer.java:6439) at org.antlr.runtime.Lexer.nextToken(Lexer.java:84) at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.fillBuffer(CommonTokenStream.java:95) at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.LT<http://org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.LT>(CommonTokenStream.java:238) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:573) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:439) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:416) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:335) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:893) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:755) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Thank you in advance for the input CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.
