hive_common.jar is there on the classpath. Can you do the following jar tvf /users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_common.jar
and see if HiveConf shows up in that... Ashish -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Cohen [mailto:sco...@cs.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:26 PM To: hive-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: classpath issue Great! Here is the print out of my classpath: /users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../conf:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/TestSerDe.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/antlr-runtime-3.0.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/asm-3.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-cli-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-jexl-1.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/commons-logging-api-1.0.4.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/derby.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_anttasks.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_cli.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_common.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_exec.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_jdbc.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_metastore.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_serde.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/hive_service.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/jdo2-api-2.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/jpox-core-1.2.2.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/jpox-enhancer-1.2.2.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/jpox-rdbms-1.2.2.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/json.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/junit-3.8.1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/libfb303.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/libthrift.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/stringtemplate-3.1b1.jar:/users/scohen/hive/build/dist/bin/../lib/velocity-1.5.jar: Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Shirley Prasad Chakka wrote: > You can change the last line bin/hive script to print the classpath, > may we can figure out from that. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > *From: *Shirley Cohen <sco...@cs.utexas.edu> > *Reply-To: *<hive-user@hadoop.apache.org> > *Date: *Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:04:23 -0800 > *To: *<hive-user@hadoop.apache.org> > *Subject: *classpath issue > > Hi, > > I'm finally getting around to installing hive. I was able to build the > latest version from the repository without any problems. However, when > I try to run cli from from build/dist/bin, I get the following error: > > ./bin/hive -hiveconf hive.root.logger=INFO,console > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf > at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:158) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68) > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source) > ... 7 more > > From the error, it looks as though my classpath isn't getting set > correctly. Any ideas on why that might be? > > I'm running on FedoraCore 8 and hadoop 19. I have set the $HADOOP_HOME > variable to the root of my hadoop directory. > > Thanks, > > Shirley > >