Yea I agree, it is mostly likely a permission error, I would check the hive logs to see exactly which file/dir path is giving the error.   Thanks Szehon ... View more

Looks like you need to increase the memory of the HS2 process itself.  That flag you mentioned will only affect the MR jobs that is spawned by Hive, but the stack indicates that it didn't make it past the compiler.   Hope that helps, Szehon ... View more