Support Questions

geko · ‎06-29-2016

Hello,

in an upgraded HDP cluster (upgrade to 2.3.4) the following ERROR is shown in Metastore log:

2016-06-29 08:32:40,184 ERROR [pool-5-thread-109]: metastore.RetryingHMSHandler (RetryingHMSHandler.java:invoke(155)) -
MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.newMetaException(HiveMetaStore.java:5420)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.rethrowException(HiveMetaStore.java:4542)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.get_partitions_by_expr(HiveMetaStore.java:4525)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:107)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy3.get_partitions_by_expr(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_partitions_by_expr.getResult(ThriftHiv
eMetastore.java:10218)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Processor$get_partitions_by_expr.getResult(ThriftHiv
eMetastore.java:10202)
        at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
        at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridg
e.java:681)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridg
e.java:676)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1657)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor.process(HadoopThriftAuthBri
dge.java:676)
        at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.getExprString(ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:158)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.ppr.PartitionExpressionForMetastore.convertExprToFilter(PartitionExpressi
onForMetastore.java:40)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPartitionsByExprInternal(ObjectStore.java:2072)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.ObjectStore.getPartitionsByExpr(ObjectStore.java:2059)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RawStoreProxy.invoke(RawStoreProxy.java:114)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy0.getPartitionsByExpr(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.get_partitions_by_expr(HiveMetaStore.java:4520)
        ... 20 more

Any hint where to investigate ?

Many thanks