[HIVE-8646] Hive class loading failure when executing Hive action via oozie workflows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0

Environment

Hadoop 2.6.0 + Hive 0.14 + Oozie 4.1

• Assignee: Navis Ryu
• Reporter: Venkat Ranganathan
• Created: 29/Oct/14 17:54
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:40
• Resolved: 31/Oct/14 18:25

Description

When running Hive actions with Oozie we hit this issue sometimes. What is interesting is that we have all the necessary jars in the classpath (or atleast are expected to be localized).

This static initialization block is introduced by HIVE-3925.

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:270)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:214)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
Caused by: java.lang.TypeNotPresentException: Type org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FieldSchema not present
at sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeNamedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:117)
at sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:125)
at sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:49)
at sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.reifyTypeArguments(Reifier.java:68)
at sun.reflect.generics.visitor.Reifier.visitClassTypeSignature(Reifier.java:138)
at sun.reflect.generics.tree.ClassTypeSignature.accept(ClassTypeSignature.java:49)
at sun.reflect.generics.repository.MethodRepository.getReturnType(MethodRepository.java:68)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.getGenericReturnType(Method.java:245)
at java.beans.FeatureDescriptor.getReturnType(FeatureDescriptor.java:370)
at java.beans.Introspector.getTargetEventInfo(Introspector.java:996)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:417)
at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:163)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.PTFUtils.makeTransient(PTFUtils.java:267)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.<clinit>(Task.java:53)
... 4 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FieldSchema
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:270)
at sun.reflect.generics.factory.CoreReflectionFactory.makeNamedType(CoreReflectionFactory.java:114)
... 17 more