[HIVE-458] Setting fs.default.name incorrectly leads to meaningless error message

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Configuration
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: HIVE-458. Better error messages for fs.default.name. (Paul Yang via zshao)
• Assignee: Paul Yang
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 29/Apr/09 20:58
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:05
• Resolved: 06/Jan/10 02:47

Description

In my hadoop-site.xml I accidentally set fs.default.name to

http://wilbur21.labs.corp.sp1.yahoo.com:8020

instead of the proper:

hdfs://wilbur21.labs.corp.sp1.yahoo.com:8020

The result was

hive> show tables;
FAILED: Unknown exception : null
FAILED: Unknown exception : null
Time taken: 0.035 seconds
hive>

It should give a meaningful error message.