you've hit this https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/WindowsProblems
the next version of hadoop will fail with a more useful message, including that wiki link On 21 Oct 2015, at 00:36, Renato Perini <renato.per...@gmail.com<mailto:renato.per...@gmail.com>> wrote: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:522) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.ClientWrapper.<init>(ClientWrapper.scala:171) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.executionHive$lzycompute(HiveContext.scala:162) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.executionHive(HiveContext.scala:160) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext.<init>(HiveContext.scala:167) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.createSQLContext(SparkILoop.scala:1028) at $iwC$$iwC.<init>(<console>:9) at $iwC.<init>(<console>:18) at <init>(<console>:20) at .<init>(<console>:24) at .<clinit>(<console>) at .<init>(<console>:7) at .<clinit>(<console>) at $print(<console>) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$ReadEvalPrint.call(SparkIMain.scala:1065) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$Request.loadAndRun(SparkIMain.scala:1340) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.loadAndRunReq$1(SparkIMain.scala:840) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:871) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:819) at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.reallyInterpret$1(SparkILoop.scala:857)
