How can I ask hive to provide more detailed error?

Question

When I run hive, it shows the following error

[hadoop@a74f90aecdad tmp]$ hive
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/hive/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.10.0.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(ZLjava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
    at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.set(Configuration.java:1357)
    at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.set(Configuration.java:1338)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.setJar(JobConf.java:536)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.setJarByClass(JobConf.java:554)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.<init>(JobConf.java:448)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.initialize(HiveConf.java:5141)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.<init>(HiveConf.java:5099)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4jCommon(LogUtils.java:97)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils.initHiveLog4j(LogUtils.java:81)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:699)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:683)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:323)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:236)

What does it mean? Is it possible to show more details?

Answer 1

Summarizing my answer from a similar question on Super User: https://superuser.com/a/1501841/115371

Hadoop core updated its Guava version in HADOOP-15960, which went out in Hadoop 3.0.4, 3.1.3, and 3.2.1.

Hive 3.1.2 ships its own incompatible version of Guava, not only in lib/guava-*.jar, but also hive-exec-*.jar, a "fat JAR" that repackages several external libraries. The Hive services/CLI don't run without hive-exec-*.jar, which means that we can't just delete guava-*.jar to get around the compatibility problem.

At the moment, the only options are either:

• Build Hive from the latest source, which should include HIVE-22126 to work around the hive-exec-*.jar problem, or
• Use Hadoop 3.0.3, 3.2.0, or 3.1.2, the last releases before HADOOP-15960. But note that the Guava JAR shipped with in these Hadoop versions has a known vulnerability: CVE-2018-10237.

Answer 2

This error pops, when a program is compiled using one version of Jar and executed on other (typically old) version of the same Jar. In this Scenario, mostly there might be a conflict in the guava Jar file version between Hadoop and Hive.

step 1: Go to the HADOOP_INSTALLATION_DIR/share/hadoop/common/lib and check the guava.jar version

step 2: Now go to HIVE_INSTALLATION_DIR/lib and compare the guava file version of hive with hadoop. If they are not same, delete the older version among them and copy the newer version in both.