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Posted to user@hive.apache.org by Ranjitha Chandrashekar <Ra...@hcl.com> on 2013/04/05 11:46:39 UTC

Error Creating External Table

Hi

When i try creating a external table to a text file on HDFS i get the following error. Could someone please let me know where I am going wrong.

 hive> create external table seq4 (item STRING) row format delimited fields terminated by '' STORED as TEXTFILE location 'hdfs://<host>:54310/user/myfolder/items';
FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException java.io.FileNotFoundException: Parent path is not a directory: /user/myfolder/items
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.mkdirs(FSDirectory.java:944)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirsInternal(FSNamesystem.java:2068)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:2029)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.mkdirs(NameNode.java:817)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:563)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1388)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1384)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1382)
)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

Thanks
Ranjitha.


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RE: Error Creating External Table

Posted by Ranjitha Chandrashekar <Ra...@hcl.com>.
Hi Piyush

That was a problem with the path. There were other incompatible files in that directory.

Thanks anyway.. :)

From: Piyush Srivastava [mailto:Piyush.Srivastava@wizecommerce.com]
Sent: 05 April 2013 15:23
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: RE: Error Creating External Table

When you giving location give it as '/user/myfolder/items' hive know it is need to be store at HDFS which is define at $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/hdfs-site.xml.

Thanks,
./Piyush
________________________________
From: Ranjitha Chandrashekar [Ranjitha.Ch@hcl.com]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:16 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Error Creating External Table
Hi

When i try creating a external table to a text file on HDFS i get the following error. Could someone please let me know where I am going wrong.

 hive> create external table seq4 (item STRING) row format delimited fields terminated by '' STORED as TEXTFILE location 'hdfs://<host>:54310/user/myfolder/items';
FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException java.io.FileNotFoundException: Parent path is not a directory: /user/myfolder/items
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.mkdirs(FSDirectory.java:944)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirsInternal(FSNamesystem.java:2068)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:2029)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.mkdirs(NameNode.java:817)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:563)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1388)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1384)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1382)
)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

Thanks
Ranjitha.


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RE: Error Creating External Table

Posted by Piyush Srivastava <Pi...@wizecommerce.com>.
When you giving location give it as '/user/myfolder/items' hive know it is need to be store at HDFS which is define at $HADOOP_CONF_DIR/hdfs-site.xml.

Thanks,
./Piyush
________________________________
From: Ranjitha Chandrashekar [Ranjitha.Ch@hcl.com]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:16 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Error Creating External Table

Hi

When i try creating a external table to a text file on HDFS i get the following error. Could someone please let me know where I am going wrong.

 hive> create external table seq4 (item STRING) row format delimited fields terminated by '' STORED as TEXTFILE location 'hdfs://<host>:54310/user/myfolder/items';
FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException java.io.FileNotFoundException: Parent path is not a directory: /user/myfolder/items
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.mkdirs(FSDirectory.java:944)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirsInternal(FSNamesystem.java:2068)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:2029)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.mkdirs(NameNode.java:817)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:563)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1388)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:1384)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:416)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1093)
        at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:1382)
)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

Thanks
Ranjitha.


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