Hi. Do you have access to logs? A callstack would be helpful. From: Marcin Tustin <mtus...@handybook.com<mailto:mtus...@handybook.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Friday, May 6, 2016 at 09:29 To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: NullPointerException when dropping database backed by S3
Hi All, I have a database backed by an s3 bucket. When I try to drop that database, I get a NullPointerException: hive> drop database services_csvs cascade; FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) hive> describe database services_csvs; OK services_csvs s3a://ID:SECRETWITHOUTSLASHES@services-csvs/mtustin USER → hive --version WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications. Hive 1.2.1.2.3.4.0-3485 Subversion git://c66-slave-20176e25-2/grid/0/jenkins/workspace/HDP-build-centos6/bigtop/build/hive/rpm/BUILD/hive-1.2.1.2.3.4.0 -r efb067075854961dfa41165d5802a62ae334a2db Compiled by jenkins on Wed Dec 16 04:01:39 UTC 2015 From source with checksum 4ecc763ed826fd070121da702cbd17e9 Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcin Want to work at Handy? Check out our culture deck and open roles<http://www.handy.com/careers> Latest news<http://www.handy.com/press> at Handy Handy just raised $50m<http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/02/on-demand-home-service-handy-raises-50m-in-round-led-by-fidelity/> led by Fidelity [http://marketing-email-assets.handybook.com/smalllogo.png]
