Spark 2.1 - Error While instantiating HiveSessionState

Question

With a fresh install of Spark 2.1, I am getting an error when executing the pyspark command.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File \"/usr/local/spark/pytho         


        

Answer 1

Project location and file permissions would be issue. I have observed this error happening inspite of changes to my pom file.Then i changed the directory of my project to user directory where i have full permissions, this solved my issue.