Hi spark users and developers, Is it possible to disable HiveContext from being instantiated when using spark-shell? I got the following errors when I have more than one session starts. Since I don't use HiveContext, it would be great if I can have more than 1 spark-shell start at the same time.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaS toreClient at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:522) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.<init>(ClientWrapper.scala:171) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.IsolatedClientLoader.liftedTree1$1(IsolatedClientLoader.scala:183) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.IsolatedClientLoader.<init>(IsolatedClientLoader.scala:179) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:226) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.metadataHive(HiveContext.scala:185) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.setConf(HiveContext.scala:392) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$$anonfun$5.apply(SQLContext.scala:235) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext$$anonfun$5.apply(SQLContext.scala:234) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72) at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54) at org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext.<init>(SQLContext.scala:234) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:72) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.createSQLContext(SparkILoop.scala:1028) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopExt.importSpark(SparkILoopExt.scala:154) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopExt$$anonfun$process$1.apply$mcZ$sp(SparkILoopExt.scala:127) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopExt$$anonfun$process$1.apply(SparkILoopExt.scala:113) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopExt$$anonfun$process$1.apply(SparkILoopExt.scala:113) Best Regards, Jerry