Hi, Are you logged in using hive specific user or as root user.
/tmp/hive/hive.log file may be created once root user and it can’t be updated by any other user so it says permission denied. Thanks & Regards, Rinku Garg From: Clay McDonald [mailto:stuart.mcdon...@bateswhite.com] Sent: 17 October 2013 18:41 To: 'Eric Mizell'; user@hive.apache.org Cc: Rommel Garcia; Yi Zhang; Chris Hackett; Steve Puckett; Terry Padgett Subject: RE: Problem starting Hive Thanks Eric! My Hive log is attached. From: Eric Mizell [mailto:emiz...@hortonworks.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 8:59 AM To: Clay McDonald Cc: Rommel Garcia; Yi Zhang; user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>; Chris Hackett; Steve Puckett; Clay McDonald; Terry Padgett Subject: Re: Problem starting Hive Clay, Can you send the Hive log file? -- Eric - Sent from iPhone On Oct 17, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Clay McDonald <stuart.mcdon...@bateswhite.com<mailto:stuart.mcdon...@bateswhite.com>> wrote: Good morning all, I have another issue this morning. This time with Hive. Hive was working before I restarted the server. My metastore is MySQL on the same server. See error below; [root@bigdata5 staff]# hive 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.max.split.size is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.maxsize 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.min.split.size is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.minsize 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.min.split.size.per.rack is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.minsize.per.rack 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.min.split.size.per.node is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.input.fileinputformat.split.minsize.per.node 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.reduce.tasks is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.job.reduces 13/10/16 12:31:18 WARN conf.Configuration: mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution is deprecated. Instead, use mapreduce.reduce.speculative Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-common-0.11.0.2.0.5.0-67.jar!/hive-log4j.properties SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings. SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/usr/lib/hadoop/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class] SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/usr/lib/hive/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.4.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class] SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html%23multiple_bindings&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=zqOP248aNQyhYgwT%2FsREm5ngqRHnJdl9rnHZ1a6ArtU%3D%0A&m=N5YDuUCH9J3DMyaafAw8tDUw6NMLQztDvoJeWmjNlLY%3D%0A&s=080cb8415402a8b24564c5a9e64501a74cb672ff1556c095aee42ed2b38a5e2f> for an explanation. hive> show tables; FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient hive> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- snip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mysql> SELECT user, host FROM mysql.user; +----------+-------------------------+ | user | host | +----------+-------------------------+ | sqladmin | % | | root | 127.0.0.1 | | | Bigdata5.bateswhite.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://Bigdata5.bateswhite.com&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=zqOP248aNQyhYgwT%2FsREm5ngqRHnJdl9rnHZ1a6ArtU%3D%0A&m=N5YDuUCH9J3DMyaafAw8tDUw6NMLQztDvoJeWmjNlLY%3D%0A&s=ff04527098c060c9576d46a4216c57544804ed9bc41f47bedf18569c16be11ea> | | root | Bigdata5.bateswhite.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://Bigdata5.bateswhite.com&k=%2FbkpAUdJWZuiTILCq%2FFnQg%3D%3D%0A&r=zqOP248aNQyhYgwT%2FsREm5ngqRHnJdl9rnHZ1a6ArtU%3D%0A&m=N5YDuUCH9J3DMyaafAw8tDUw6NMLQztDvoJeWmjNlLY%3D%0A&s=ff04527098c060c9576d46a4216c57544804ed9bc41f47bedf18569c16be11ea> | | | localhost | | root | localhost | | sqladmin | localhost | +----------+-------------------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> SHOW DATABASES; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | hadoop | | mysql | | test | +--------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) Clay McDonald Database Administrator Bates White, LLC 1300 Eye St, NW, Suite 600 East Washington, DC 20005 Main: 202.408.6110 Cell: 202.560.4101 Direct: 202.747.5962 Email: clay.mcdon...@bateswhite.com<mailto:clay.mcdon...@bateswhite.com> **************************************************** This electronic message transmission contains information from Bates White, LLC, which may be confidential or privileged. 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