[BIGTOP-3272] Hive Metastore not Initialized

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0
• Component/s: hive

Environment

• Debian 9 (stretch)
• Bigtop 1.4.0 (also 1.3.1)

 

 

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Warren Smith
• Created: 14/Nov/19 17:21
• Updated: 16/Mar/20 05:27

Description

The Hive metastore is not initialized when derby (default) is used. Was unable to test with other metastore connectors.

There is no evidence of hive's schematool being executed in any puppet script nor in any script attached to the hive-metastore package (hive-metastore_2.3.3-1_all.deb).

Can be worked around by post-processing and removing `/var/lib/hive/metastore/metastore_db`, which is contains an empty database, and running

`sudo -u hive /usr/lib/hive/bin/schematool -dbType derby -initSchema`

 

EMR (is that a bad word here?) has a blurb to instantiate the schema before hiverserver kicks off that runs the schematool.