You can refer to the following link to figure out whether this is tez problem
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TEZ/How+to+Diagnose+Tez+App Best Regard, Jeff Zhang From: Sateesh Karuturi <sateesh.karutu...@gmail.com<mailto:sateesh.karutu...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "u...@tez.apache.org<mailto:u...@tez.apache.org>" <u...@tez.apache.org<mailto:u...@tez.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 1:19 AM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>>, "u...@tez.apache.org<mailto:u...@tez.apache.org>" <u...@tez.apache.org<mailto:u...@tez.apache.org>> Subject: error on hive insert query iam using hive 1.0.0 and tez 0.5.2. when i set hive.execution.engine value in hive-site.xml to tezselect query works well... but in case of insert getting error. the query is : insert into table tablename values(intvalue,'string value'); and the error is : FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.Tez Task