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Xuefu Zhang commented on HIVE-9566: ----------------------------------- Thanks for taking care of this. Just for my understanding, why the conf object would be null in this case? Does the problem happens all the time or just for a special case? Thanks. > HiveServer2 fails to start with NullPointerException > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9566 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9566 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HiveServer2 > Affects Versions: 0.13.0, 0.14.0, 0.13.1 > Reporter: Na Yang > Assignee: Na Yang > Attachments: HIVE-9566-branch-0.13.patch, > HIVE-9566-branch-0.14.patch, HIVE-9566-trunk.patch > > > hiveserver2 uses embedded metastore with default hive-site.xml configuration. > I use "hive --stop --service hiveserver2" command to stop the running > hiveserver2 process and then use "hive --start --service hiveserver2" command > to start the hiveserver2 service. I see the following exception in the > hive.log file > {noformat} > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.stop(HiveServer2.java:104) > at > org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.startHiveServer2(HiveServer2.java:138) > at > org.apache.hive.service.server.HiveServer2.main(HiveServer2.java:171) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) > {noformat} > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)