Do you have a hive-site.xml file or a core-site.xml file? Perhaps something is misconfigured there?
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Anusha Shamanur <anushas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to do this in spark-shell: > > val hiveCtx = neworg.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc) val listTables > =hiveCtx.hql("show tables") > > The second line fails to execute with this message: > > warning: there were 1 deprecation warning(s); re-run with -deprecation for > details org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveQl$ParseException: Failed to parse: > show tables at > org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveQl$.createPlan(HiveQl.scala:239) at > org.apache.spark.sql.hive.ExtendedHiveQlParser$$anonfun$hiveQl$1.apply(ExtendedHiveQlParser.scala:50) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.hive.ExtendedHiveQlParser$$anonfun$hiveQl$1.apply(ExtendedHiveQlParser.scala:49) > at scala.util.parsing.combinator.Parsers$Success.map(Parsers.scala:136) at > scala.util.parsing.combinator.Parsers$Success.map(Parsers.scala:135) at > scala.util.parsing.combinator.Parsers$Parser$$anonfun$map$1.apply(Parsers.scala:242) > > ... at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) Caused > by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Conf non-local session path expected to > be non-null at > com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:204) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.getHDFSSessionPath(SessionState.java:586) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.(Context.java:129) at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Context.(Context.java:116) at > org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveQl$.getAst(HiveQl.scala:227) at > org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveQl$.createPlan(HiveQl.scala:240) ... 87 more > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail mobile >