Ok I solved this problem.
/tmp/hive is temporary directory. Only temporary files are kept in this location. No problem even if we delete this directory, will be created when required with proper permissions. 1) In hdfs I removed /tmp/hive directory hdfs dfs -rm -r /tmp/hive 2) at OS level I did rm -rf /tmp/hive and then started spark-shell and it worked fine HTH, Mich Talebzadeh Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 <http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908 .pdf> http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908. pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner's Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. Any information in this message shall not be understood as given or endorsed by Peridale Technology Ltd, its subsidiaries or their employees, unless expressly so stated. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is virus free, therefore neither Peridale Ltd, its subsidiaries nor their employees accept any responsibility. From: Mich Talebzadeh [mailto:m...@peridale.co.uk] Sent: 20 November 2015 21:14 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: starting spark-shell throws /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable error Hi, Has this been resolved. I don't think this has anything to do with /tmp/hive directory permission spark-shell log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.lib.MutableMetricsFactory). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. Using Spark's repl log4j profile: org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults-repl.properties To adjust logging level use sc.setLogLevel("INFO") Welcome to ____ __ / __/__ ___ _____/ /__ _\ \/ _ \/ _ `/ __/ '_/ /___/ .__/\_,_/_/ /_/\_\ version 1.5.2 /_/ Using Scala version 2.10.4 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.7.0_25) Type in expressions to have them evaluated. Type :help for more information. java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwx------ <console>:10: error: not found: value sqlContext import sqlContext.implicits._ ^ <console>:10: error: not found: value sqlContext import sqlContext.sql ^ scala> Thanks, Mich Talebzadeh Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 <http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908 .pdf> http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908. pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner's Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. Any information in this message shall not be understood as given or endorsed by Peridale Technology Ltd, its subsidiaries or their employees, unless expressly so stated. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is virus free, therefore neither Peridale Ltd, its subsidiaries nor their employees accept any responsibility.
