It may be because you have 2 copies of Hive's jar files (e.g., one in Hadoop's lib directory and one in Hive's lib directory) and they are from different releases. If you have compiled Hive trunk yoruself please make sure no Hive's jar files in the Hadoop's directory.
On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:51 PM, John Villa wrote: Here is what I got from the hive log; 2010-01-21 20:49:13,291 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.core.resources" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:13,291 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.core.resources" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:13,294 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.core.runtime" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:13,294 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.core.runtime" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:13,294 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.text" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:13,294 ERROR DataNucleus.Plugin (Log4JLogger.java:error(115)) - Bundle "org.eclipse.jdt.core" requires "org.eclipse.text" but it cannot be resolved. 2010-01-21 20:49:18,719 WARN mapred.JobClient (JobClient.java:configureCommandLineOptions(539)) - Use GenericOptionsParser for parsing the arguments. Applications should implement Tool for the same. 2010-01-21 20:49:55,514 ERROR exec.ExecDriver (SessionState.java:printError(279)) - Ended Job = job_201001211744_0008 with errors 2010-01-21 20:49:55,550 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(279)) - FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM, John Villa <john.joe.vi...@gmail.com<mailto:john.joe.vi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Has anyone seen this error? Any help is appreciated, thanks; hive> select * from apachelog where host ="64.62.191.114"; Total MapReduce jobs = 1 Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator Starting Job = job_201001211744_0002, Tracking URL = http://master:50030/jobdetails.jsp?jobid=job_201001211744_0002 Kill Command = /u01/hadoop/bin/../bin/hadoop job -Dmapred.job.tracker=master:54311 -kill job_201001211744_0002 2010-01-21 07:24:38,198 map = 0%, reduce =0% 2010-01-21 07:25:15,029 map = 100%, reduce =100% Ended Job = job_201001211744_0002 with errors FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver
