Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: type at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mKW_CREATE(HiveLexer.java:1602)

Now you have successfully configured Hadoop and everything is running perfectly fine. So, you decided to give Hive a try. But, oops...as soon as you try to create the very first table you find yourself into something like this :


Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: type
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mKW_CREATE(HiveLexer.java:1602)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveLexer.mTokens(HiveLexer.java:6380)
        at org.antlr.runtime.Lexer.nextToken(Lexer.java:89)
        at org.antlr.runtime.BufferedTokenStream.fetch(BufferedTokenStream.java:133)
        at org.antlr.runtime.BufferedTokenStream.sync(BufferedTokenStream.java:127)
        at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.setup(CommonTokenStream.java:132)
        at org.antlr.runtime.CommonTokenStream.LT(CommonTokenStream.java:91)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:547)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:438)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:416)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:336)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:909)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:258)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:215)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:406)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:689)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:557)
        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:616)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)

Need not worry. It's something related to antlr-*.jar which is present inside you HIVE_HOME/lib directory. Just make sure you don't have any other antlr-*.jar in your classpath. If it still doesn't work, download the latest version from the ANTLR website and put it inside your HIVE_HOME/lib. Restart Hive and you are good to go...

NOTE: If you want to see how to configure Hadoop you can go here