We got the same issue and resolve as below: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask Check for more details and got error as : "Unexpected end of input stream"   Now, Get the hdfs LOCATION for the table by using below command on HUE or HIVE shell: show create table <table-name>;   Check for the zero byte size files and remove them from hdfs location using below command: hdfs dfs -rm -skipTrash $(hdfs dfs -ls -R <hdfs_location> | grep -v "^d" | awk '{if ($5 == 0) print $8}')   Try running again our query which ran successfully this time. ... View more