title: Illegal argument exception at Hive 0.14 Startup
body: <p>I am getting below exception with Apache Hive 0.94 using ACID configuration. I am using Apache Hadoop 2.6 with Oracle Java 8. Can someone help me by pointing to  the root case and any potential fixes for this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bhive.session.id%7D_resources
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:444)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:672)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:616)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
  at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
  at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bhive.session.id%7D_resources
  at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:206)
  at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.&lt;init&gt;(Path.java:172)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.createSessionDirs(SessionState.java:490)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState.start(SessionState.java:430)
  ... 8 more
  Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: ${system:java.io.tmpdir%7D/$%7Bhive.session.id%7D_resources
  at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1804)
  at java.net.URI.&lt;init&gt;(URI.java:752)
  at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:203)
  </code></pre>