Error Configuring Object In Hive Joins

[Sreenath <sr...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have two hive tables pointing to the same location(folder) when i join
these tables hive fails in map-reduce with the error

java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:426)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:366)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
	at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1190)
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88)
	... 9 more


Any idea why this would happen ?


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