Hi One of your jar is not available and may be that has the required UDF or any related methods.
Hive was not able to locate your first jar '/scripts/hiveMd5.jar does not exist' Just fix this with the correct location. Everything should work fine. Regards Bejoy K S From handheld, Please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Charles Thomas <jctho...@autoscout24.com> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:51:58 To: user@hive.apache.org<user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Error when Creating an UDF Hi everybody, i am trying to create an UDF follwing the example in the Hive Wiki. Everything is fine but the CREATE statement (see below) where an error occurs: hive> add jar /scripts/hiveMd5.jar; /scripts/hiveMd5.jar does not exist hive> add jar /scripts/hive/udf/Md5.jar; Added /scripts/hive/udf/Md5.jar to class path Added resource: /scripts/hive/udf/Md5.jar hive> CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION mymd5 AS 'com.autoscout24.hive.udf.Md5'; FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FunctionTask hive> in the Hive log, there is no much more: 2012-02-06 16:16:36,096 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(343)) - FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.FunctionTask Any Help is welcome, Thanks a lot for hlep, Jean-Charles