The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions are: rw-rw-rw- (on Windows)

Question

I am running Spark on Windows 7. When I use Hive, I see the following error

The root scratch dir: /tmp/hive on HDFS should be writable. Current permissions a         


        

Answer 1

Issue resolved in spark version 2.0.2 (Nov 14 2016). Use this version . Version 2.1.0 Dec 28 2016 release has same issues.