Hive msck repair not working

Okay, so msck repair is not working and you saw something as below,

0: jdbc:hive2://hive_server:10000> msck repair table mytable;
Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask (state=08S01,code=1)

It seems to appear because of higher number of partitions – https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12859

This is what worked for me,

set hive.msck.path.validation=ignore;
MSCK REPAIR TABLE table_name;

robin@hive_server:~$ hive --hiveconf hive.msck.path.validation=ignore
hive> use mydatabase;
OK
Time taken: 1.084 seconds
hive> msck repair table mytable;
OK
Partitions not in metastore:	mytable:location=00S	mytable:location=03S	
Repair: Added partition to metastore mytable:location=00S
Repair: Added partition to metastore mytable:location=03S
Time taken: 22.039 seconds, Fetched: 1277 row(s)
hive>

References

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40043986/hdinsight-hive-msck-repair-table-table-name-throwing-error
2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38886511/handle-subfolders-after-partitions-in-hive