The recommendation is to set permissions to 1777 on /tmp, including /tmp/hive. On May 7, 2015 9:49 PM, "Rahul Channe" <drah...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I am getting following error on starting hive 0.14. Need help > > user@ubuntuvm:~/hive-0.14.0$ hive > > Logging initialized using configuration in > jar:file:/home/user/hive-0.14.0/lib/hive-common-0.14.0.jar!/hive-log4j.properties > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: > java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should > be writable. Current permissions are: rwx--x--x > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:444) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:672) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:616) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:622) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:160) > Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on > HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwx--x--x > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createRootHDFSDir(SessionState.java:529) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:478) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:430) > ... 7 more > user@ubuntuvm:~/hive-0.14.0$ > >
