can you share your configuration (hardware wise)? and whats the hive version are you using?
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Valluri, Sathish <sathish.vall...@emc.com>wrote: > When trying to create table in Hive I am always getting the following > error always. > > Not able to do any hive DDL operations, > > > > *FAILED: Error in metadata: > MetaException(message:java.lang.RuntimeException: commitTransaction was > called but openTransactionCalls = 0. This probably indicates that there are > unbalanced calls to openTransaction/commitTransaction) * > > *FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask * > > > > Can anyone help or give any idea on the reason for this failure always. > > > > I have looked into the similar issue reported on Hive > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4996 but this is looks like > observed intermittently and not always. > > > > > > Regards > > Sathish Valluri > -- Nitin Pawar