Apache Hive : Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient

Question

I'm trying to install Apache Hive, I insert HIVE_HOME and HADOOP_HOME into hive_config.sh and I copy some hive jar into the $HADOOP_HOME/lib But when I try to launch it by using hive command this error appear :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:346)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:681)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)
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.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1412)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.<init>(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:62)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingMetaStoreClient.getProxy(RetryingMetaStoreClient.java:72)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createMetaStoreClient(Hive.java:2453)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.getMSC(Hive.java:2465)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:340)
... 7 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
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.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.newInstance(MetaStoreUtils.java:1410)
... 12 more
Caused by: javax.jdo.JDOFatalInternalException: Error creating transactional connection factory
NestedThrowables:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
etc ...

ANY HELP PLEASE !

Answer 1

hive --service metastore &

this command will start the metastore.

Answer 2

Your hadoop should be in running condition. untar the downloaded hive and give the permission to the directory. Go to the hive/conf directory. Make hive-env.sh.template file to hive-env.sh and hive-default.xml.template file to hive-site.xml. Open hive-evn.sh and set JAVA_HOME in hive-env.sh and HADOOP_HOME and also set the hive path by.

export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/hive

then open hive terminal by

hive

by default hive takes Derby database, if it gives error of metastore at the time of create table, go to metastore/metastore_db and delete the *.lck files.

Add the JAVA_HOME, HADOOP_HOME, HIVE_HOME in .bashrc or .bash_profile.

$cd ~
$vi .bashrc

paste following to the end of the file



#Hadoop variables
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk/
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/local/hadoop
export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/sbin
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export YARN_HOME=$HADOOP_INSTALL
export HIVE_HOME=/usr/local/hive
export PATH=$PATH:$HIVE_HOME/bin
###end of paste