somehow after three days of searching, i just deployed client configuration for all hive roles again, and the error seems to be gone. lets see what the future brings.
cheers 2013/10/11 fab wol <darkwoll...@gmail.com> > hey everyone, > > I've got supplied with a decent ten node CDH 4.4 cluster, only 7 days old, > and someone tried some HBase stuff on it. I wanted to apply my (on another > cluster working) workflow's to that cluster (consisting of HiveQL Scripts > and Oozie Workflows) but unfortunately i the following issue: When trying > to drop some select statement on any table (sample tables or tables > regarding my workflow) i get the following error stack (from beeswax and > from Hive CLI): > > java.io.IOException: > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(java.lang.NullPointerException): > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.DatanodeManager.sortLocatedBlocks(DatanodeManager.java:334) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getBlockLocations(FSNamesystem.java:1245) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.getBlockLocations(NameNodeRpcServer.java:413) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.getBlockLocations(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:172) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java:44938) > at > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:453) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:1002) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1751) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1747) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396) > at > org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1408) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1745) > > > I tried already setting up a new table (blank) and inserting some dummy data, > but the error keeps the same. Some connection between HDFS and Hive regarind > block information seems to be broken. Any idea how to fix this or where the > configuration is to get rid of this or what other things we should check? > > Cheers > > Fabian > >