After installing Atlas and the datanodes in the cluster do not have the log path for hive you get the below stack: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) at org.apache.atlas.hive.hook.HiveHook.initialize(HiveHook.java:71) at org.apache.atlas.hive.hook.HiveHook.<init>(HiveHook.java:41) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.HookUtils.getHooks(HookUtils.java:60) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.getHooks(Driver.java:1386) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.getHooks(Driver.java:1370) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1598) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1291) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1158) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1148) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:217) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:169) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:380) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:315) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processReader(CliDriver.java:413) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processFile(CliDriver.java:429) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:718) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:685) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:277) at org.apache.atlas.hook.FailedMessagesLogger.getRootLoggerDirectory(FailedMessagesLogger.java:86) at org.apache.atlas.hook.FailedMessagesLogger.init(FailedMessagesLogger.java:49) at org.apache.atlas.hook.AtlasHook.<clinit>(AtlasHook.java:77) ... 31 more To resolve this do the following, i.e. create the path for the hive process to dump log files in the cluster: pdsh -g allhosts 'mkdir -p /var/hadoop/log/hive/ ; chmod 1777 /var/hadoop/log/hive/ ' # verify pdsh -g allhosts 'stat -c"%a %U:%G %N" /var/hadoop/log/hive/ ' | dshbak -c ... View more