Since classpath conflicts are common most folks don't like to "pollute" the classpath with extra unused jar files. This is can lead to "classpath hell". Since this jar is optional, it requires being added to the classpath via the mechanism you used or the two I proposed. ... View more

I think this might be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9620 which is caused for avro tables and a case difference on column names. ... View more

Hello,   Thank you for the detailed report! This is a bug in the Hive HDFS Encryption integration in CDH 5.3.0. When a user has read only access, it's supposed to fail back to a directory in /tmp. I have created a DISTRO jira to track this DISTRO-681- Bug in HDFS Encryption for read only users.   We'll fix this ASAP.   Brock ... View more

This looks like the same problem as described in the thread "WARN [main] conf.HiveConf (HiveConf.java:initialize(1488))" ... View more

That's a very generic error. Can you look at the task logs to see if there is a longer stack trace? ... View more

Hi,   Are you using Hive Server 1 or Hive Server 2?  We strongly recommend Hive Server 2. If you are using HS2 it sounds like the Table Lock Manager is not correctly configured. The steps to do so are located on this page:   http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/latest/CDH4-Installation-Guide/cdh4ig_topic_18_5.html ... View more