[HIVE-1294] HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH interferes with startup of Hive Web Interface

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: Web UI
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Edward Capriolo
• Reporter: Dilip Joseph
• Created: 08/Apr/10 05:42
• Updated: 17/Dec/11 00:03
• Resolved: 31/Jul/10 05:19

Description

The Hive Webserver fails to startup with the following error message, if HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH environment variable is set (works fine if unset).

$ build/dist/bin/hive --service hwi
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Error opening job jar: -libjars
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:90)
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:114)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:133)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:70)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:88)

Slightly modifying the command line to launch hadoop in hwi.sh solves the problem:

$ diff bin/ext/hwi.sh /tmp/new-hwi.sh
28c28
< exec $HADOOP jar $AUX_JARS_CMD_LINE ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
—
> exec $HADOOP jar ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $AUX_JARS_CMD_LINE $HIVE_OPTS "$@"