MetaException(message:hdfs:// h1.vgs.mypoints.com:8020/user/flume/events/request_logs/ar1.vgs.mypoints.com/13-06-13/FlumeData.1371144648033
is not a directory or unable to create one) it clearly says its not a directory. Point to the dictory and it will work On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:52 PM, sanjeev sagar <sanjeev.sa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Everyone, I'm running into the following Hive external table issue. > > > > hive> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE access( > > > host STRING, > > > identity STRING, > > > user STRING, > > > time STRING, > > > request STRING, > > > status STRING, > > > size STRING, > > > referer STRING, > > > agent STRING) > > > ROW FORMAT SERDE > > 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.contrib.serde2.RegexSerDe' > > > WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( > > > "input.regex" = "([^ ]*) ([^ ]*) ([^ ]*) (-|\\[[^\\]]*\\]) > > ([^ \"]*|\"[^\"]*\") (-|[0-9]*) (-|[0-9]*)(?: ([^ \"]*|\"[^\"]*\") ([^ > \"]*|\"[^\"]*\"))?", > > > "output.format.string" = "%1$s %2$s %3$s %4$s %5$s %6$s > > %7$s %8$s %9$s" > > > ) > > > STORED AS TEXTFILE > > > LOCATION > > '/user/flume/events/request_logs/ > ar1.vgs.mypoints.com/13-06-13/FlumeData.1371144648033'; > > FAILED: Error in metadata: > > MetaException(message:hdfs:// > h1.vgs.mypoints.com:8020/user/flume/events/request_logs/ar1.vgs.mypoints.com/13-06-13/FlumeData.1371144648033 > > is not a directory or unable to create one) > > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > > > > > > In HDFS: file exists > > > > hadoop fs -ls > > /user/flume/events/request_logs/ > ar1.vgs.mypoints.com/13-06-13/FlumeData.1371144648033 > > Found 1 items > > -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs supergroup 2242037226 2013-06-13 11:14 > > /user/flume/events/request_logs/ > ar1.vgs.mypoints.com/13-06-13/FlumeData.1371144648033 > > > > I've download the serde2 jar file too and install it in > /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-json-serde-0.2.jar and I've bounced all the hadoop > services after that. > > > > I even added the jar file manually in hive and run the above sql but still > failing. > > ive> add jar /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-json-serde-0.2.jar > > > ; > > Added /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-json-serde-0.2.jar to class path Added > resource: /usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-json-serde-0.2.jar > > > > Any help would be highly appreciable. > > > > -Sanjeev > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sanjeev Sagar > > *"**Separate yourself from everything that separates you from others !" - > Nirankari > Baba Hardev Singh ji * > > ** > -- Nitin Pawar
