pxs@ubuntu:~/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin$ hive

Logging initialized using configuration in file:/home/pxs/apache-hive-1.2.1-bin/conf/hive-log4j.properties

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bsystem:user.name%7D

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:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)

at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bsystem:user.name%7D

at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:205)

at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:171)

at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:563)

at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:508)

... 8 more

Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bsystem:user.name%7D

at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1823)

at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:745)

at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:202)

... 11 more