More often than not in my experience is caused by a malformed hive-site.xml(or hive-default.xml). When this happened to me, it was because I somehow had tab characters in my hive-site.xml. Try dropping the file(s) and recreate with appropriate formatting.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Sanjay Subramanian < sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com> wrote: > Can u stop following services > hive-server > hive-meta-store > Hive-server2 (if u r running that) > > Move current hive.log some place else > > Start following services > hive-server > hive-meta-store > Hive-server2 (if u r running that) > > > And check hive.log ? > > Also can u paste the CREATE TABLe script verbatim here…I feel if u are > using some custom INPUTFORMAT / OUTPUTFORMAT class that have to be > specified in quotes…u may have to be *escape* that > > Plus try and add a semicolon to the end of the create table script ... > > sanjay > > From: Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:52 PM > > To: user <user@hive.apache.org> > Subject: Re: "show table" throwing strange error > > Thank you for looking into it Sanjay. "show tables" is working fine > from both Ubuntu and Hive shell. But i'm getting the same error as > yesterday when i'm running "create table", which is : > > line 1:30 character '' not supported here > line 1:31 character '' not supported here > line 1:32 character '' not supported here > line 1:33 character '' not supported here > line 1:34 character '' not supported here > line 1:35 character '' not supported here > line 1:36 character '' not supported here > line 1:37 character '' not supported here > line 1:38 character '' not supported here > line 1:39 character '' not supported here > line 1:40 character '' not supported here > line 1:41 character '' not supported here > line 1:42 character '' not supported here > . > . > . > . > > Also, I have noticed 1 strange thing. "hive.log" is totally messed up. > Looks like logs are getting written in some binary encoding. I have > attached a snapshot of the same. Any idea? > > Warm Regards, > Tariq > cloudfront.blogspot.com > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Sanjay Subramanian < > sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com> wrote: > >> Can u try from your ubuntu command prompt >> $> hive -e "show tables" >> >> From: Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> >> Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:28 AM >> To: user <user@hive.apache.org> >> >> Subject: Re: "show table" throwing strange error >> >> Thank you for the response ma'am. It didn't help either. >> >> Warm Regards, >> Tariq >> cloudfront.blogspot.com >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Sunita Arvind <sunitarv...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Your issue seems familiar. Try logging out of hive session and >>> re-login. >>> >>> Sunita >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> I have a hive(0.9.0) setup on my Ubuntu box running >>>> hadoop-1.0.4. Everything was going smooth till now. But today when I issued >>>> *show tables* I got some strange error on the CLI. Here is the error : >>>> >>>> hive> show tables; >>>> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:0 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:1 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:2 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:3 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:4 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:5 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:6 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:7 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:8 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:9 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:10 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:11 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:12 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:13 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:14 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:15 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:16 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:17 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:18 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:19 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:20 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:21 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:22 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:23 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:24 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:25 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:26 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:27 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:28 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:29 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:30 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:31 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:32 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:33 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:34 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:35 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:36 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:37 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:38 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:39 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:40 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:41 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:42 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:43 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:44 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:45 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:46 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:47 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:48 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:49 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:50 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:51 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:52 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:53 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:54 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:55 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:56 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:57 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:58 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:59 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:60 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:61 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:62 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:63 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:64 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:65 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:66 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:67 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:68 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:69 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:70 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:71 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:72 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:73 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:74 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:75 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:76 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:77 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:78 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:79 character '' not supported here >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> . >>>> line 1:378 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:379 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:380 character '' not supported here >>>> line 1:381 character '' not supported here >>>> >>>> Strangely other queries like *select foo from pokes where bar = >>>> 'tariq';* are working fine. Tried to search over the net but could not >>>> find anything useful.Need some help. >>>> >>>> Thank you so much for your time. >>>> >>>> Warm Regards, >>>> Tariq >>>> cloudfront.blogspot.com >>>> >>> >>> >> >> 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. 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