2633943 - Cannot connect to Hive - SAP Cloud Platform BDS

Symptom

Below error is returned after running command hive on the workbench:

Logging initialized using configuration in file:/etc/hive-1.2.1/hive-log4j.properties
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create log directory /tmp/hive/scratch/<workbench_user>
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:522)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:677)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:621)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create log directory /tmp/hive/scratch/<workbench_user>
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createTempFile(SessionState.java:813)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:513)
... 8 more

Environment

SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services (BDS) 4.3
SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services (BDS) 5.0

Product

SAP Big Data Services all versions

Keywords

altiscale , KBA , BC-NEO-BDS , HCP Big Data Service , Problem

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