Not sure what's wrong in your query but have you set variable "HADOOP_HOME" ?
its deprecated in hadoop but needed in hive (as per my understanding) On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Ankit Bhatnagar <ank...@yahoo-inc.com>wrote: > Creating new table > > From: Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Date: Friday, August 16, 2013 12:17 PM > To: "user@hive.apache.org" <user@hive.apache.org> > Subject: Re: FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException > > Can you tell us what were you trying to do? > create table? or executing a query on a table someone already created ? > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Ankit Bhatnagar <ank...@yahoo-inc.com>wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> >> FAILED: Error in metadata: >> MetaException(message:file:/user/hive/warehouse/src is not a directory or >> unable to create one) >> >> >> drwxrwxrwx - hadoop supergroup 0 2013-08-16 18:31 >> /user/hive/warehouse/src >> >> >> Is it some permission issue? >> >> Ankit >> > > > > -- > Nitin Pawar > -- Nitin Pawar
