What is Hive: Return Code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapRedTask

That’s not the real error, here’s how to find it:

Go to the hadoop jobtracker web-dashboard, find the hive mapreduce jobs that failed and look at the logs of the failed tasks. That will show you the real error.

The console output errors are useless, largely beause it doesn’t have a view of the individual jobs/tasks to pull the real errors (there could be errors in multiple tasks)

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