If you don't want HBase to start a zookeeper by default, edit conf/hbase-env.sh and look towards the end of the file for the right configuration to use.
To understand why the Master doesn't start, take a quick look at its log you should see some obvious exceptions. J-D On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Pavel Gutin <[email protected]> wrote: > But that's the port zookeepers is running on. I want HBase to use that > instance of zookeeper, and not start its own. > I tried changing the port in zoo.cfg, and HBase started with no error. > But then it still gave a "NoMasterRunningException" > > 2010/1/29 Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>: >> Something is already listening on the port Zookeeper is trying to >> open. Make sure there's nothing listening on 2181, 2888 and 3888. >> >> J-D >> >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Pavel Gutin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I apologize if I am breaking some kind of list etiquette, but I've >>> been struggling for the last week, and I have no idea where to ask for >>> help. >>> >>> I got HBase to work on my virtual Ubuntu machine, but when i tried >>> moving it to RedHat running on real hardware, it fails. I start up >>> hadoop, then zookeeper and when i start HBase, i get the following >>> error: >>> >>>>$ bin/start-hbase.sh >>> localhost: starting zookeeper, logging to >>> /usr/local/hadoop/hbase/bin/../logs/hbase-hadoop-zookeeper-fchadoop04.out >>> localhost: java.net.BindException: Address already in use >>> localhost: at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Native Method) >>> localhost: at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(Unknown Source) >>> localhost: at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source) >>> localhost: at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(Unknown Source) >>> localhost: at >>> org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn$Factory.<init>(NIOServerCnxn.java:140) >>> localhost: at >>> org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServerMain.runFromConfig(ZooKeeperServerMain.java:106) >>> localhost: at >>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.HQuorumPeer.runZKServer(HQuorumPeer.java:90) >>> localhost: at >>> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.HQuorumPeer.main(HQuorumPeer.java:75) >>> starting master, logging to >>> /usr/local/hadoop/hbase/bin/../logs/hbase-hadoop-master-fchadoop04.out >>> localhost: starting regionserver, logging to >>> /usr/local/hadoop/hbase/bin/../logs/hbase-hadoop-regionserver-fchadoop04.out >>> >>> When I go into the shell after that, doing anything throws a >>> "MasterNotRunningException" >>> >>> I would appreciate any help. >>> >>> - Pavel >>> >> >
