hive - python cannot connect hiveserver2

Question

I have tried use the example on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Setting+Up+HiveServer2 but gets the following errors:

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py:1031: UserWarning: /home/dsnadmin/.python-eggs is writable by group/others and vulnerable to attack when used with get_resource_filename. Consider a more secure location (set with .set_extraction_path or the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment variable).
  warnings.warn(msg, UserWarning)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hs2.py", line 8, in <module>
    database='default') as conn:
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pyhs2/__init__.py", line 7, in connect
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pyhs2/connections.py", line 46, in __init__
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pyhs2/cloudera/thrift_sasl.py", line 66, in open
thrift.transport.TTransport.TTransportException: Could not start SASL: Error in sasl_client_start (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found

Here is the hive log:

ERROR [HiveServer2-Handler-Pool: Thread-31]: server.TThreadPoolServer (TThreadPoolServer.java:run(296)) - Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransportException: No data or no sasl data in the stream
        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslServerTransport$Factory.getTransport(TSaslServerTransport.java:219)
        at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:268)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransportException: No data or no sasl data in the stream
        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslTransport.open(TSaslTransport.java:328)
        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslServerTransport.open(TSaslServerTransport.java:41)
        at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSaslServerTransport$Factory.getTransport(TSaslServerTransport.java:216)

Does anyone can help solve the problem? Thank you very much.

OS version: Ubuntu 14.04.1
Hive version: apache-hive-1.2.0
SASL version: sasl-0.1.3
Thrift version: thrift-0.9.1

Answer 1

You are missing some dependencies, make sure you install cyrus-sasl-devel and cyrus-sasl-gssapi:

On an RHEL-based distro:

sudo yum install cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain

... or on a Debian-based distro:

sudo apt-get install sasl2-bin libsasl2-2 libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules

Per @KenKennedy, also add the libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit package if using GSSAPI for authentication.