[SPARK-15437] Failed to create HiveContext in SparkR

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Xiao Li
• Created: 20/May/16 06:18
• Updated: 21/May/16 05:02
• Resolved: 21/May/16 05:02

Description

Failed to create HiveContext in SparkR, even if we build the project with Hive support.

build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Psparkr -DskipTests clean package

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 Spark context is available as sc, SQL context is available as sqlContext
> hiveContext <- sparkRHive.init(sc)
16/05/19 22:49:45 ERROR RBackendHandler: <init> on org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext failed
Error in value[[3L]](cond) : Spark SQL is not built with Hive support

Issue Links

• blocks: SPARK-15396 [Spark] [SQL] [DOC] It can't connect hive metastore database
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #13207 (rxin)