Hive 0.14.0 not starting

Question

I have hadoop 1.2.1 and i have install hive 0.14.0 on single node

$ hive

Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/usr/local/hive/lib/hive-common-0.14.0.jar!/hive-log4j.properties

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwxrwxr-x

at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:444)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:672)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:616)
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:160)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwxrwxr-x
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createRootHDFSDir(SessionState.java:529)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:478)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:430)
... 7 more

The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwxrwxr-x.

I use hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp/hive but not working.

Answer 1

Update the permission of your /tmp/hive HDFS directory using the following command

hadoop fs -chmod 777 /tmp/hive

If so can you remove /tmp/hive on both local and hdfs.

hadoop fs -rm -r /tmp/hive;  
rm -rf /tmp/hive

Only temporary files are kept in this location. No problem even if we delete this, will be created when required with proper permissions.