Hi,
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: "jline/ArgumentCompletor$ArgumentDelimiter" this class presents in the "jline.jar". Check whether this jar is present in the distribution or not in {HIVE_HOME}/lib. If it presents which version it is? For ex: In trunk distribution jline-0.9.94.jar will be used. And send which version u r using.. Hope it helps, Chinna Rao Lalam ________________________________ From: ram prasad [rammca...@yahoo.co.in] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:12 PM To: Chinna Rao Lalam Subject: Hive console startup issue Hi , I m unable to start the hive console and getting the below error message hduser@HBaseSlave2:/usr/local/hive$bin/hive Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jline/ArgumentCompletor$ArgumentDelimiter at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:149) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jline.ArgumentCompletor$ArgumentDelimiter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 3 more Can u help on this issue? Regards, Ram Prasad