Those are the same options I used, except I had —tgz to package it and I built off of the master branch. Unfortunately, my only guess is that these errors stem from your build environment. In your spark assembly, do you have any classes which belong to the org.apache.hadoop.hive package?
From: Tridib Samanta <tridib.sama...@live.com<mailto:tridib.sama...@live.com>> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 9:49 AM To: Terry Siu <terry....@smartfocus.com<mailto:terry....@smartfocus.com>>, "u...@spark.incubator.apache.org<mailto:u...@spark.incubator.apache.org>" <u...@spark.incubator.apache.org<mailto:u...@spark.incubator.apache.org>> Subject: RE: Unable to use HiveContext in spark-shell I am using spark 1.1.0. I built it using: ./make-distribution.sh -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 -Phive -DskipTests My ultimate goal is to execute a query on parquet file with nested structure and cast a date string to Date. This is required to calculate the age of Person entity. but I am even unable to pass this line: val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc) I made sure that org.apache.hadoop package is in the spark assembly jar. Re-attaching the stack trace for quick reference. scala> val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc) error: bad symbolic reference. A signature in HiveContext.class refers to term hive in package org.apache.hadoop which is not available. It may be completely missing from the current classpath, or the version on the classpath might be incompatible with the version used when compiling HiveContext.class. error: while compiling: <console> during phase: erasure library version: version 2.10.4 compiler version: version 2.10.4 reconstructed args: last tree to typer: Apply(value $outer) symbol: value $outer (flags: <method> <synthetic> <stable> <expandedname> <triedcooking>) symbol definition: val $outer(): $iwC.$iwC.type tpe: $iwC.$iwC.type symbol owners: value $outer -> class $iwC -> class $iwC -> class $iwC -> class $read -> package $line5 context owners: class $iwC -> class $iwC -> class $iwC -> class $iwC -> class $read -> package $line5 == Enclosing template or block == ClassDef( // class $iwC extends Serializable 0 "$iwC" [] Template( // val <local $iwC>: <notype>, tree.tpe=$iwC "java.lang.Object", "scala.Serializable" // parents ValDef( private "_" <tpt> <empty> ) // 5 statements DefDef( // def <init>(arg$outer: $iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type): $iwC <method> <triedcooking> "<init>" [] // 1 parameter list ValDef( // $outer: $iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type "$outer" <tpt> // tree.tpe=$iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type <empty> ) <tpt> // tree.tpe=$iwC Block( // tree.tpe=Unit Apply( // def <init>(): Object in class Object, tree.tpe=Object $iwC.super."<init>" // def <init>(): Object in class Object, tree.tpe=()Object Nil ) () ) ) ValDef( // private[this] val sqlContext: org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext private <local> <triedcooking> "sqlContext " <tpt> // tree.tpe=org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext Apply( // def <init>(sc: org.apache.spark.SparkContext): org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext in class HiveContext, tree.tpe=org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext."<init>" // def <init>(sc: org.apache.spark.SparkContext): org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext in class HiveContext, tree.tpe=(sc: org.apache.spark.SparkContext)org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext Apply( // val sc(): org.apache.spark.SparkContext, tree.tpe=org.apache.spark.SparkContext $iwC.this.$line5$$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$$outer().$line5$$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$$outer().$line5$$read$$iwC$$iwC$$$outer().$VAL1().$iw().$iw()."sc" // val sc(): org.apache.spark.SparkContext, tree.tpe=()org.apache.spark.SparkContext Nil ) ) ) DefDef( // val sqlContext(): org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext <method> <stable> <accessor> "sqlContext" [] List(Nil) <tpt> // tree.tpe=org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext $iwC.this."sqlContext " // private[this] val sqlContext: org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext, tree.tpe=org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext ) ValDef( // protected val $outer: $iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type protected <synthetic> <paramaccessor> <triedcooking> "$outer " <tpt> // tree.tpe=$iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type <empty> ) DefDef( // val $outer(): $iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type <method> <synthetic> <stable> <expandedname> <triedcooking> "$line5$$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$$outer" [] List(Nil) <tpt> // tree.tpe=Any $iwC.this."$outer " // protected val $outer: $iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type, tree.tpe=$iwC.$iwC.$iwC.type ) ) ) == Expanded type of tree == ThisType(class $iwC) uncaught exception during compilation: scala.reflect.internal.Types$TypeError scala.reflect.internal.Types$TypeError: bad symbolic reference. A signature in HiveContext.class refers to term conf in value org.apache.hadoop.hive which is not available. It may be completely missing from the current classpath, or the version on the classpath might be incompatible with the version used when compiling HiveContext.class. That entry seems to have slain the compiler. Shall I replay your session? I can re-run each line except the last one. [y/n] Thanks Tridib > From: terry....@smartfocus.com<mailto:terry....@smartfocus.com> > To: tridib.sama...@live.com<mailto:tridib.sama...@live.com>; > u...@spark.incubator.apache.org<mailto:u...@spark.incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Unable to use HiveContext in spark-shell > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:38:51 +0000 > > What version of Spark are you using? Did you compile your Spark version > and if so, what compile options did you use? > > On 11/6/14, 9:22 AM, "tridib" > <tridib.sama...@live.com<mailto:tridib.sama...@live.com>> wrote: > > >Help please! > > > > > > > >-- > >View this message in context: > >http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Unable-to-use-HiveCont > >ext-in-spark-shell-tp18261p18280.html > >Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > >user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org<mailto:user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > >user-h...@spark.apache.org<mailto:user-h...@spark.apache.org> > > >