This is my testing result at the Hadoop master node which used for namenode and hive server2.   When I executing beeline for local file loading to a table, I met same error. It was the permission issue on the file to the hive user which is the owner of HiveServer2 process.   It was solve when I grant read permission the file including whole path.   Please check the file accessible permission as this. sudo -u hive cat ~/test.txt     ... View more