Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable.

一、启动HIVE报错：

[root@master ~]# hive

Logging initialized using configuration in jar:file:/usr/local/hive-1.2.2/lib/hive-common-1.2.2.jar!/hive-log4j.properties
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwx------
	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: The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rwx------
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createRootHDFSDir(SessionState.java:612)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:554)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:508)
	... 8 more
[root@master ~]# 

二、错误分析。

从The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Currentpermissions are: rwxr-xr-x可以看出。系统要求在hdfs上用户应该具备写权限，而从报错可以看出只有所有者具有写权限，所有组合其他用户不具备。

三、错误修改。

使用hadoop fs hadoop fs -chmod -R dir修改目录权限，如下 

[root@master ~]# hadoop fs -chmod -R 777 /tmp

使其他用户也具备本目录的写权限