I found a pattern when this happens. When I run sqlCtx = HiveContext(sc)
it works as expected. Second and any time after that - gives that exception stack I reported in this email chain. > sqlCtx = HiveContext(sc) > sqlCtx.sql('select * from marketview.spend_dim') You must build Spark with Hive. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' and run build/sbt assembly Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-6752406810533348793.py", line 267, in <module> raise Exception(traceback.format_exc()) Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-6752406810533348793.py", line 265, in <module> exec(code) File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module> File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/context.py", line 580, in sql return DataFrame(self._ssql_ctx.sql(sqlQuery), self) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/context.py", line 683, in _ssql_ctx self._scala_HiveContext = self._get_hive_ctx() File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/context.py", line 692, in _get_hive_ctx return self._jvm.HiveContext(self._jsc.sc()) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.9-src.zip/py4j/java_gateway.py", line 1064, in __call__ answer, self._gateway_client, None, self._fqn) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/utils.py", line 45, in deco return f(*a, **kw) Key piece to reproduce this issue - assign HiveContext(sc) to a variable more than once, and use that variable between assignments. -- Ruslan Dautkhanov On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Ruslan Dautkhanov <dautkha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Getting > You must *build Spark with Hive*. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' > See full stack [2] below. > > I'm using Spark 1.6 that comes with CDH 5.8.3. > So it's definitely compiled with Hive. > We use Jupyter notebooks without problems in the same environment. > > Using Zeppelin 0.6.2, downloaded as zeppelin-0.6.2-bin-all.tgz from from > apache.org > > Is Zeppelin compiled with Hive too? I guess so. > Not sure what else is missing. > > Tried to play with ZEPPELIN_SPARK_USEHIVECONTEXT but it does not make > difference. > > > [1] > $ cat zeppelin-env.sh > export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/java7 > export SPARK_HOME=/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark > export SPARK_SUBMIT_OPTIONS="--principal xxxx --keytab yyy --conf > spark.driver.memory=7g --conf spark.executor.cores=2 --conf > spark.executor.memory=8g" > export SPARK_APP_NAME="Zeppelin notebook" > export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf > export HIVE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hive/conf > export HIVE_HOME=/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/hive > export PYSPARK_PYTHON="/opt/cloudera/parcels/Anaconda/bin/python2" > export PYTHONPATH="/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python:/ > opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/lib/py4j-0.9-src.zip" > export MASTER="yarn-client" > export ZEPPELIN_SPARK_USEHIVECONTEXT=true > > > > > [2] > > You must build Spark with Hive. Export 'SPARK_HIVE=true' and run build/sbt > assembly > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-9143637669637506477.py", line 267, in <module> > raise Exception(traceback.format_exc()) > Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/tmp/zeppelin_pyspark-9143637669637506477.py", line 265, in <module> > exec(code) > File "<stdin>", line 9, in <module> > File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/lib/spark/python/pyspark/sql/context.py", > line 580, in sql > > [3] > Also have correct symlinks in zeppelin_home/conf for > - hive-site.xml > - hdfs-site.xml > - core-site.xml > - yarn-site.xml > > > > Thank you, > Ruslan Dautkhanov >