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Exceptions when reading tutorial CSV file in the Cloudera VM

I'm trying to do a Spark tutorial that comes with the Cloudera Virtual Machine. But even though I'm using the correct line-ending encoding, I can not execute the scripts, because I get tons of errors. The tutorial is part of the Coursera Introduction to Big Data Analytics course. The assignment can be found here.

So here's what I did. Install the IPython shell (if not yet done):

sudo easy_install ipython==1.2.1

Open/Start the shell (either with 1.2.0 or 1.4.0):

PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=ipython pyspark --packages com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.2.0

Set the line-endings to windows style. This is because the file is in windows-encoding and it's said in the course to do so. If you don't do this, you'll get other errors.

sc._jsc.hadoopConfiguration().set('textinputformat.record.delimiter','\r\n')

Trying to load the CSV file:

yelp_df = sqlCtx.load(source='com.databricks.spark.csv',header = 'true',inferSchema = 'true',path = 'file:///usr/lib/hue/apps/search/examples/collections/solr_configs_yelp_demo/index_data.csv')

But getting a very long list of errors, which starts like this:

Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o23.load.: java.lang.RuntimeException: 
Unable to instantiate 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.SessionHiveMetaStoreClient at 
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:472)

The full error message can be seen here. And this is the /etc/hive/conf/hive-site.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="configuration.xsl"?>

<configuration>

  <!-- Hive Configuration can either be stored in this file or in the hadoop configuration files  -->
  <!-- that are implied by Hadoop setup variables.                                                -->
  <!-- Aside from Hadoop setup variables - this file is provided as a convenience so that Hive    -->
  <!-- users do not have to edit hadoop configuration files (that may be managed as a centralized -->
  <!-- resource).                                                                                 -->

  <!-- Hive Execution Parameters -->

  <property>
    <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
    <value>jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/metastore?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true</value>
    <description>JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore</description>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
    <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
    <description>Driver class name for a JDBC metastore</description>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
    <value>hive</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
    <value>cloudera</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
    <value>/usr/lib/hive/lib/hive-hwi-0.8.1-cdh4.0.0.jar</value>
    <description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web Interface</description>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>
    <value>true</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>datanucleus.autoCreateSchema</name>
    <value>false</value>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>hive.metastore.uris</name>
    <value>thrift://127.0.0.1:9083</value>
    <description>IP address (or fully-qualified domain name) and port of the metastore host</description>
  </property>
</configuration>

Any help or idea how to solve that? I guess it's a pretty common error. But I couldn't find any solution, yet.

One more thing: is there a way to dump such long error messages into a separate log-file?

Solution

  • Summary of the discussion: Executing the following command solved the issue:

    sudo cp /etc/hive/conf.dist/hive-site.xml /usr/lib/spark/conf/

    see https://www.coursera.org/learn/bigdata-analytics/supplement/tyH3p/setup-pyspark-for-dataframes for more info.