hey guys, i'm using hive version 2.1.0 and i can't seem to get msck repair table to work. no matter what i try i get the 'ol NPE. I've set the log level to 'DEBUG' but yet i still am not seeing any smoking gun.
would anyone here have any pointers or suggestions to figure out what's going wrong? thanks, Stephen. hive> create external table foo (a int) partitioned by (date_key bigint) location 'hdfs:/tmp/foo'; OK Time taken: 3.359 seconds hive> msck repair table foo; FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask from the log... 2016-07-14T04:08:02,431 DEBUG [MSCK-GetPaths-1]: httpclient.RestStorageService (:()) - Found 13 objects in one batch 2016-07-14T04:08:02,431 DEBUG [MSCK-GetPaths-1]: httpclient.RestStorageService (:()) - Found 0 common prefixes in one batch 2016-07-14T04:08:02,433 ERROR [main]: metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker (:()) - java.lang.NullPointerException 2016-07-14T04:08:02,434 WARN [main]: exec.DDLTask (:()) - Failed to run metacheck: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.getAllLeafDirs(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:444) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.getAllLeafDirs(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:448) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.getAllLeafDirs(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:388) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.findUnknownPartitions(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:309) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkTable(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:285) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkTable(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:230) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkMetastore(HiveMetaStoreChecker.java:109) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.msck(DDLTask.java:1814) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:403) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:197) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:100) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1858) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1562) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1313) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1084) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1072) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:232) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:183) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:399) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:776) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:714) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:641) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)