Re: SQL Context error in 1.5.1 - any work around ?

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Hillegas
> Date: 10/15/2015 09:59 AM > Subject: SQL Context error in 1.5.1 - any work around ? > > I keep on getting this error whenever I'm starting spark-shell : The > root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current > permissions are: rwx--. > I cannot work with

SQL Context error in 1.5.1 - any work around ?

2015-10-15 Thread Sourav Mazumder
I keep on getting this error whenever I'm starting spark-shell : The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwx--. I cannot work with this if I need to do anything with sqlContext as that does not get created. I could see that a bug is raised for