I think you can have a look this maillist. http://apache-carbondata-mailing-list-archive.1130556.n5.nabble.com/Dictionary-file-is-locked-for-updation-td5076.html
Have a look the following guide and pay attention to carbon.properties file. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CARBONDATA/Cluster+deployment+guide For spark yarn cluster mode, 1. both driver side and executor side need same carbon.properties file. 2. set carbon.lock.type=HDFSLOCK 3. set carbon.properties.filepath spark.executor.extraJavaOptions -Dcarbon.properties.filepath=<absolute path carbon.properties> spark.driver.extraJavaOptions -Dcarbon.properties.filepath=<absolute path carbon.properties> -- View this message in context: http://apache-carbondata-mailing-list-archive.1130556.n5.nabble.com/Dictionary-file-is-locked-for-Updation-unable-to-Load-tp5359p5422.html Sent from the Apache CarbonData Mailing List archive mailing list archive at Nabble.com.