Unable to move Hadoop Hive tables from Source to Destination

Question

I am using Hive 1.2.0 over Hadoop 2.6.0. I have created an employee table. However, when I run the following query:

hive> load data local inpath '/home/com/employeedetails' into table employee;

I get the following error:

Failed with exception Unable to move source file:/home/abc/employeedetails to destination hdfs://localhost:9000/user/hive/warehouse/employee/employeedetails_copy_1
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MoveTask

Help me with the solution.

Answer 1

First, check the permissions of HDFS Directory to load the hive tables

hdfs dfs -ls /user/hive/warehouse/employee/employeedetails_copy_1

 Also, the issue involved lack of permissions to load data into hive table. Please try below command:

hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse