RE: Hive startup issue

[Chinna Rao Lalam <ch...@huawei.com>]

Hi,



  In the below stack trace i found that shims not able to get the version number or it is giving wrong numbers so it is not able get the class name and class name coming as null.  "Could not load shims in class null"



Can u post what version of distributions u r using (Hadoop and hive) and any modifications u have done for hadoop distribution...



Hope it helps,

Chinna Rao Lalam.

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From: ram prasad [rammca_03@yahoo.co.in]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:40 PM
To: Chinna Rao Lalam
Subject: Hive startup issue

Hi Chinna,

Can u pls take a look on the below error message and let me know the probable cause of the issue

Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/home/hduser/hive/build/dist/lib/hive-common-0.9.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/hive-log4j.properties
Hive history file=/tmp/hduser/hive_job_log_hduser_201111291400_933758390.txt
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims in class null
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:262)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:603)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:554)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims in class null
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveUtils.getAuthenticator(HiveUtils.java:225)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:255)
    ... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims in class null
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.HadoopDefaultAuthenticator.setConf(HadoopDefaultAuthenticator.java:53)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:62)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveUtils.getAuthenticator(HiveUtils.java:222)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load shims in class null


Regards,
Ram Prasad