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How to start HIVE shell? Getting issues while starting hive shell.

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hive.png Please find the attached snapshot to see the issue. Thanks!

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@sudhir reddy

Can you try switching to "hive" user and then run the hive command?

# su - hive
# hive

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Or please make sure to have the "/user/root" directory created in your HDFS.

# su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root"
# su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -chown root:hadoop /user/root"

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@sudhir reddy

Can you try switching to "hive" user and then run the hive command?

# su - hive
# hive

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Or please make sure to have the "/user/root" directory created in your HDFS.

# su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root"
# su - hdfs -c "hdfs dfs -chown root:hadoop /user/root"

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