beeline null pointer exception

[Brotanek, Jan]

Hello, I have problem executing following statement in Beeline version 
1.2.1000.2.4.0.0-169 by Apache Hive CLI (beeline being invoked with config: 
--fastConnect=true --hive.cli.errors.ignore=true):

create table if not exists test.testorc

STORED AS ORC

as

select

*

from test.testorc_e
;

Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: NullPointerException null 
(state=42000,code=40000).

I played around with beeline settings and also with formatting (CR/LF) of 
query. However still getting that error. In Hive it works perfectly fine...

Thanks
Jan