Daniel, Looks like we already have Jira for that error https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-11431
Could you put details on how to reproduce the issue to the ticket? Thank you Alex On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Daniel Haviv < daniel.ha...@veracity-group.com> wrote: > Hi, > We are inserting streaming data into a hive orc table via a simple insert > statement passed to HiveContext. > When trying to read the files generated using Hive 1.2.1 we are getting > NPE: > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.MapRecordSource.processRow(MapRecordSource.java:91) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.MapRecordSource.pushRecord(MapRecordSource.java:68) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.MapRecordProcessor.run(MapRecordProcessor.java:290) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezProcessor.initializeAndRunProcessor(TezProcessor.java:148) > ... 14 more > Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime > Error while processing row > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorMapOperator.process(VectorMapOperator.java:52) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.MapRecordSource.processRow(MapRecordSource.java:83) > ... 17 more > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at java.lang.System.arraycopy(Native Method) > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.set(Text.java:225) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorExtractRow$StringExtractorByValue.extract(VectorExtractRow.java:472) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorExtractRow.extractRow(VectorExtractRow.java:732) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorReduceSinkOperator.process(VectorReduceSinkOperator.java:102) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorSelectOperator.process(VectorSelectOperator.java:138) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:837) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TableScanOperator.process(TableScanOperator.java:97) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator$MapOpCtx.forward(MapOperator.java:162) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorMapOperator.process(VectorMapOperator.java:45) > ... 18 more > > Is this a known issue ? > >