Hi, I'm a newbie to Hive. Facing an issue while installing hive stable version (0.13). I downloaded the tar file from the site ( apache-hive-0.13.1-bin.tar.gz <http://apache.cs.utah.edu/hive/hive-0.13.1/apache-hive-0.13.1-bin.tar.gz>) and followed the instructions given on Hive Wiki <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted#GettingStarted-InstallationandConfiguration>. On running the "hive" command to get to the hive shell, I'm getting the below exception.
Request for a help in this regard. What am I missing? Is there any further configuration to be done? Logging initialized using configuration in file:/usr/local/hive-0.13.1/conf/hive-log4j.properties Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:346) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:681) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.<init>(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:72) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:2453) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:2465) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:340) ... 7 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1410) ... 12 more Caused by: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Error creating transactional connection factory NestedThrowables: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.NucleusJDOHelper.getJDOExceptionForNucleusException(NucleusJDOHelper.java:587) at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.freezeConfiguration(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:788) at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.createPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:333) at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:202) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper$16.run(JDOHelper.java:1965) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invoke(JDOHelper.java:1960) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.invokeGetPersistenceManagerFactoryOnImplementation(JDOHelper.java:1166) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:808) at javax.jdo.JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory(JDOHelper.java:701) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPMF(ObjectStore.java:310) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPersistenceManager(ObjectStore.java:339) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.initialize(ObjectStore.java:248) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.setConf(ObjectStore.java:223) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.<init>(RawStoreProxy.java:58) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.getProxy(RawStoreProxy.java:67) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newRawStore(HiveMetaStore.java:497) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.getMS(HiveMetaStore.java:475) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.createDefaultDB(HiveMetaStore.java:523) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.init(HiveMetaStore.java:397) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.<init>(HiveMetaStore.java:356) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.<init>(RetryingHMSHandler.java:54) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.getProxy(RetryingHMSHandler.java:59) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore.newHMSHandler(HiveMetaStore.java:4944) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.<init>(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:171) ... 17 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.createExecutableExtension(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:631) at org.datanucleus.plugin.PluginManager.createExecutableExtension(PluginManager.java:325) at org.datanucleus.store.AbstractStoreManager.registerConnectionFactory(AbstractStoreManager.java:282) at org.datanucleus.store.AbstractStoreManager.<init>(AbstractStoreManager.java:240) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.RDBMSStoreManager.<init>(RDBMSStoreManager.java:286) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513) at org.datanucleus.plugin.NonManagedPluginRegistry.createExecutableExtension(NonManagedPluginRegistry.java:631) at org.datanucleus.plugin.PluginManager.createExecutableExtension(PluginManager.java:301) at org.datanucleus.NucleusContext.createStoreManagerForProperties(NucleusContext.java:1187) at org.datanucleus.NucleusContext.initialise(NucleusContext.java:356) at org.datanucleus.api.jdo.JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.freezeConfiguration(JDOPersistenceManagerFactory.java:775) ... 46 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.<clinit>(LoggerFactory.java:60) at com.jolbox.bonecp.BoneCPConfig.<clinit>(BoneCPConfig.java:62) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.connectionpool.BoneCPConnectionPoolFactory.createConnectionPool(BoneCPConnectionPoolFactory.java:59) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.ConnectionFactoryImpl.generateDataSources(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:238) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.ConnectionFactoryImpl.initialiseDataSources(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:131) at org.datanucleus.store.rdbms.ConnectionFactoryImpl.<init>(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:85) ... 64 more ~Sarath