https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Unable-to-start-HIVE-job-with-Oozie/m-p/206491#M168453 <P>Hi Can you post your job.properties as well,</P><P>There will be several reasons for Null Pointer exception it is not a actual exception , could you please check in /var/log/oozie for actual exception.</P><P>and this is my workflow..please try this </P><PRE>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?&gt;&lt;workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.5" name="anji_test"&gt; &lt;start to="hive"/&gt; &lt;action name="hive"&gt; &lt;hive xmlns="uri:oozie:hive-action:0.2"&gt; &lt;job-tracker&gt;${jobTracker}&lt;/job-tracker&gt; &lt;name-node&gt;${nameNode}&lt;/name-node&gt; &lt;script&gt;${nameNode}/sample/hive.hql&lt;/script&gt; &lt;/hive&gt; &lt;ok to="end"/&gt; &lt;error to="kill"/&gt; &lt;/action&gt; &lt;kill name="kill"&gt; &lt;message&gt;Action failed, error message[${wf:errorMessage(wf:lastErrorNode())}]&lt;/message&gt; &lt;/kill&gt; &lt;end name="end"/&gt; &lt;/workflow-app&gt; </PRE> Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:25:36 GMT ANJIREDDY 2018-10-04T13:25:36Z