/sbin/start-stop-daemon: unable to open pidfile '/var/run/hive/hive-metastore.pid' for writing (No such file or directory)

unable to open pidfile '/var/run/hive/hive-metastore.pid'

Hi friends,

This error eat my 3 hours. Finally i fixed it.

The problem in my side was  the post install scripts didn't create directories /var/run/hive and /var/lock/subsys. Or it may removed :).

So i just created these directories manually.

sudo mkdir /var/run/hive
sudo mkdir /var/lock/subsys

Problem solved :)




Courtesy : https://cwiki.apache.org/BIGTOP/running-various-bigtop-components.html