[HIVE-6690] NPE in tez session state

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
• Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin
• Created: 18/Mar/14 00:19
• Updated: 19/Mar/14 16:52
• Resolved: 19/Mar/14 16:52

Description

If hive.jar.directory isn't set hive will throw NPE in startup with tez:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:344)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:682)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:626)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezSessionState.createHiveExecLocalResource(TezSessionState.java:303)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezSessionState.open(TezSessionState.java:130)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:342)
... 7 more