This looks related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11751
The debug strings gets generated but gets filtered. Can you share your log4j2 properties file? What version of hive are you using? Thanks Prasanth On Nov 2, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Premal Shah <premal.j.s...@gmail.com<mailto:premal.j.s...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Gopal, The first thing I did was to look in the logs. Could not find anything even after setting the log level to DEBUG. Any ideas will be appreciated. On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Gopal Vijayaraghavan <gop...@apache.org<mailto:gop...@apache.org>> wrote: > I am not sure what is going on here. You can check the /tmp/$USER/hive.log and see what's happening in detail. Cheers, Gopal -- Regards, Premal Shah.