On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Chris Bates <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I'm new to HBase and trying to configure it to run with a cluster of 6
> machines.  I'm logged into the Master Node and ran the start scripts as
> directed from the Wiki,


You are reading
http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/r0.20.1/api/overview-summary.html#overview_description
?


</configuration>
>
> here's the ugly error:
>
> hbase(main):001:0> create 'stations', {NAME=>'info',VERSIONS=>1}
> 09/11/09 14:54:09 INFO client.HConnectionManager$TableServers: getMaster
> attempt 0 of 5 failed; retrying after sleep of 2000
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
>



Is HBASE up?  Check the master logs.  Check the UI.

Sorry, the ruby shell can dump ugly stack traces.  There's an issue to
tighten them up.

St.Ack

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