Thank you Andrew for the below. You were running all in cygwin I take it? Should we update this document: http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.2/cygwin.html?
St.Ack On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Milkowski <andrewmilkow...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > Have a quick workaround to start hbase on 64-bit windows > > Launch standalone zookeeper (don't add regional servers in the zoo.cfg) and > keep hbase.cluster.distributed set to false > > Hbase was able to connect to zookeeper server (probably a failover due to > internal error in hbase itself, there is definitely something wrong in the > way hbase handles its own zookeeper initiation) > > (Zookeeper instructions are in the usual place: > http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/current/zookeeperStarted.html) > > Using hbase 0.20.2 and zookeeper 3.2 versions > > performed some tests with sample table I/O all looks fine., hopefully this > will keep you going until "self-managed" zookeeper in hbase is closely > looked at > > cheers >