A crude workaround may be to run your spark shell with a sudo command. Hope this helps, Rick Hillegas
Sourav Mazumder <sourav.mazumde...@gmail.com> wrote on 10/15/2015 09:59:02 AM: > From: Sourav Mazumder <sourav.mazumde...@gmail.com> > To: user <user@spark.apache.org> > 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 this if I need to do anything with sqlContext as > that does not get created. > > I could see that a bug is raised for this https://issues.apache.org/ > jira/browse/SPARK-10066. > However, is there any work around for this. > I didn't face this problem in 1.4.1 > Regards, > Sourav
