Can u try from your ubuntu command prompt
$> hive -e "show tables"

From: Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com<mailto:donta...@gmail.com>>
Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" 
<user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>>
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:28 AM
To: user <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>>
Subject: Re: "show table" throwing strange error

Thank you for the response ma'am. It didn't help either.

Warm Regards,
Tariq
cloudfront.blogspot.com<http://cloudfront.blogspot.com>


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Sunita Arvind 
<sunitarv...@gmail.com<mailto:sunitarv...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Your issue seems familiar. Try logging out of hive session and re-login.

Sunita


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Mohammad Tariq 
<donta...@gmail.com<mailto:donta...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello list,

         I have a hive(0.9.0) setup on my Ubuntu box running hadoop-1.0.4. 
Everything was going smooth till now. But today when I issued show tables I got 
some strange error on the CLI. Here is the error :

hive> show tables;
FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:0 character '' not supported here
line 1:1 character '' not supported here
line 1:2 character '' not supported here
line 1:3 character '' not supported here
line 1:4 character '' not supported here
line 1:5 character '' not supported here
line 1:6 character '' not supported here
line 1:7 character '' not supported here
line 1:8 character '' not supported here
line 1:9 character '' not supported here
line 1:10 character '' not supported here
line 1:11 character '' not supported here
line 1:12 character '' not supported here
line 1:13 character '' not supported here
line 1:14 character '' not supported here
line 1:15 character '' not supported here
line 1:16 character '' not supported here
line 1:17 character '' not supported here
line 1:18 character '' not supported here
line 1:19 character '' not supported here
line 1:20 character '' not supported here
line 1:21 character '' not supported here
line 1:22 character '' not supported here
line 1:23 character '' not supported here
line 1:24 character '' not supported here
line 1:25 character '' not supported here
line 1:26 character '' not supported here
line 1:27 character '' not supported here
line 1:28 character '' not supported here
line 1:29 character '' not supported here
line 1:30 character '' not supported here
line 1:31 character '' not supported here
line 1:32 character '' not supported here
line 1:33 character '' not supported here
line 1:34 character '' not supported here
line 1:35 character '' not supported here
line 1:36 character '' not supported here
line 1:37 character '' not supported here
line 1:38 character '' not supported here
line 1:39 character '' not supported here
line 1:40 character '' not supported here
line 1:41 character '' not supported here
line 1:42 character '' not supported here
line 1:43 character '' not supported here
line 1:44 character '' not supported here
line 1:45 character '' not supported here
line 1:46 character '' not supported here
line 1:47 character '' not supported here
line 1:48 character '' not supported here
line 1:49 character '' not supported here
line 1:50 character '' not supported here
line 1:51 character '' not supported here
line 1:52 character '' not supported here
line 1:53 character '' not supported here
line 1:54 character '' not supported here
line 1:55 character '' not supported here
line 1:56 character '' not supported here
line 1:57 character '' not supported here
line 1:58 character '' not supported here
line 1:59 character '' not supported here
line 1:60 character '' not supported here
line 1:61 character '' not supported here
line 1:62 character '' not supported here
line 1:63 character '' not supported here
line 1:64 character '' not supported here
line 1:65 character '' not supported here
line 1:66 character '' not supported here
line 1:67 character '' not supported here
line 1:68 character '' not supported here
line 1:69 character '' not supported here
line 1:70 character '' not supported here
line 1:71 character '' not supported here
line 1:72 character '' not supported here
line 1:73 character '' not supported here
line 1:74 character '' not supported here
line 1:75 character '' not supported here
line 1:76 character '' not supported here
line 1:77 character '' not supported here
line 1:78 character '' not supported here
line 1:79 character '' not supported here
.
.
.
.
.
.
line 1:378 character '' not supported here
line 1:379 character '' not supported here
line 1:380 character '' not supported here
line 1:381 character '' not supported here

Strangely other queries like select foo from pokes where bar = 'tariq'; are 
working fine. Tried to search over the net but could not find anything 
useful.Need some help.

Thank you so much for your time.

Warm Regards,
Tariq
cloudfront.blogspot.com<http://cloudfront.blogspot.com>



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