Hitting a Null Pointer Exception when importing a table via HCatalog to ORC. We do a lot of SQL Server imports, the only additions are the hcatalog / orc options:

sqoop import --connect "jdbc:sqlserver://host:1533;database=myDB" --username "myUser" --password "myPassword" --verbose -m 1 --query "select * from [blah].[dbo].[blah2]" --mapreduce-job-name "sqoop-import-myJob" --create-hcatalog-table --hcatalog-table "mydb.mytable" --hcatalog-storage-stanza "STORED AS ORC"
15/03/27 12:32:12 INFO hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities: Executing external HCatalog CLI process with args :-f,/tmp/hcat-script-1427459532585
15/03/27 12:32:12 DEBUG util.ClassLoaderStack: Restoring classloader: java.net.URLClassLoader@7640f42a
15/03/27 12:32:12 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1010)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:617)
        at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:528)
        at org.apache.sqoop.util.Executor.exec(Executor.java:76)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.executeExternalHCatProgram(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:1119)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.launchHCatCli(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:1071)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.createHCatTable(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:610)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureHCat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:325)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.hcat.SqoopHCatUtilities.configureImportOutputFormat(SqoopHCatUtilities.java:768)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.configureOutputFormat(ImportJobBase.java:98)
        at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:249)
        at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importQuery(SqlManager.java:721)
        at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SQLServerManager.importQuery(SQLServerManager.java:346)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:499)
        at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:601)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:143)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:179)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:227)
        at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:236)
At first I thought this was SQOOP-1533 but the stack trace is different and we're on Oracle Java 7.
Hari Sekhon

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