https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-HIVE-shell-Getting-issues-while-starting-hive/m-p/178306#M80236 <P><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/legacyfs/online/attachments/80392-hive.png">hive.png</A> Please find the attached snapshot to see the issue. Thanks!</P> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:45:05 GMT sudhir_reddy 2018-07-04T13:45:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-HIVE-shell-Getting-issues-while-starting-hive/m-p/178306#M80236 <P><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/legacyfs/online/attachments/80392-hive.png">hive.png</A> Please find the attached snapshot to see the issue. Thanks!</P> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:45:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-HIVE-shell-Getting-issues-while-starting-hive/m-p/178306#M80236 sudhir_reddy 2018-07-04T13:45:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-HIVE-shell-Getting-issues-while-starting-hive/m-p/178307#M80237 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/83436/sudhirreddy.html" nodeid="83436">@sudhir reddy</A></P><P>Can you try switching to "hive" user and then run the hive command?</P><PRE># su - hive # hive</PRE><P>.</P><P>Or please make sure to have the "/user/root" directory created in your HDFS.</P><PRE># su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root" # su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -chown root:hadoop /user/root"</PRE><P>.</P> Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:50:40 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-start-HIVE-shell-Getting-issues-while-starting-hive/m-p/178307#M80237 jsensharma 2018-07-04T13:50:40Z