You are right this is related to Windows. I am using Windows8. Placed the WinUtils.exe in HADOOP_HOME/bin.
Issue does not occur anymore. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > this is windows, isn't it? you're missing a winutils.exe in the right > place, and hadoop core isn't providing anything meaningful. Hadoop 2.8 will > provide more diagnostics, including a link to this wiki page: > > > https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/WindowsProblems > > > > On 5 Oct 2015, at 05:26, Julius Fernandes <julius.oli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1010) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:482) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:455) > at > org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell$ShellCommandExecutor.execute(Shell.java:715) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:808) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:791) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.execCommand(FileUtil.java:1097) > at > org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$DeprecatedRawLocalFileStatus.loadPermissionInfo(RawLocalFileSystem.java:582) > at > org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$DeprecatedRawLocalFileStatus.getPermission(RawLocalFileSystem.java:557) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createRootHDFSDir(SessionState.java:599) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:554) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:508) > ... 56 more > > >
