[HIVE-3053] Hive stopped working when new updates were installed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.1
• Component/s: Configuration
• Labels: hadoop patch

Environment

Hadoop on Ubuntu 10 LTS; Hive 0.7.1

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vikas Deshpande
• Created: 25/May/12 14:05
• Updated: 27/May/12 18:54
• Resolved: 27/May/12 18:54

Description

After a recent update (using only cloudera's patches/releases), the hive command and hive prompt stopped working. It throws these (java) errors instead:

log4j:ERROR Could not find value for key log4j.appender.NullAppender
log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named "NullAppender".
hive-log4j.properties not found
Hive history file=/location/job_id.txt
12/05/25 09:56:56 INFO exec.HiveHistory: Hive history file=/location/job_id.txt

I am not sure how to proceed with root cause. Could somebody please check on this as soon as possible?