You need to run hive_root/build/dist/bin/hive, not hive_root/bin/hive.
From: hdev ml [mailto:hde...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:18 PM To: hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Exception in hive startup Hi all, I installed Hadoop 0.20.2 and installed hive 0.5.0. I followed all the instructions on Hive's getting started page for setting up environment variables like HADOOP_HOME When I run from command prompt in the hive installation folder as "bin/hive" it gives me following exception Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hive/conf/HiveConf 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: org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) ... 3 more Please note that my Hadoop installation is working fine. What could be the cause of this? Anybody has any idea? Thanks Harshad
