Make sure that you have hive-default.xml and hive-site.xml in the classpath while invoking hive.
Prasad ________________________________ From: Min Zhou <coderp...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <hive-user@hadoop.apache.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:35:49 -0700 To: hive-user <hive-user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: how to define my metastore since jpox be removed I found all things about jpox*.jar has been removed from the trunk(HIVE-445,HIVE-610). I configured my hive following the old way , found an exception: hive> show tables; FAILED: Error in metadata: javax.jdo.JDOFatalUserException: A property named javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactoryClass must be specified, or a jar file with a META-INF/services/javax.jdo.PersistenceManagerFactory entry must be in the classpath, or a property named javax.jdo.option.PersistenceUnitName must be specified. how can i define my metastore since jpox be removed? Thanks, Min -- My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and bytecode based virtual machine. My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay My blog: http://coderplay.javaeye.com