try flushing then major_compacting the .META. table (including periods)
eg:
> flush '.META.'
// wait a bit
> major_compact '.META.'
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Oded Rosen <o...@legolas-media.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today, when I entered "truncate 'users'" on hbase shell, it encountered an
> exception, and it didn't created the table (just disabled+dropped it).
> The master log does contain:
>
> 2010-04-16 13:15:36,500 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster:
> deleted table: users
>
> But when I try to recreate the table again, it says:
>
> 2010-04-16 13:15:51,581 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.HBaseServer: IPC
> Server handler 83 on 60000, call createTable({NAME => 'users',
> FAMILIES => [...]})
> from 10.21.204.130:48191: error:
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableExistsException: users
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableExistsException: users
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.createTable(HMaster.java:795)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.createTable(HMaster.java:759)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC$Server.call(HBaseRPC.java:657)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:915)
>
>
>
> The table does not appear in the output of the "list" command (but other
> tables do appear there, as they should).
> This error kept on showing even after deleting the table directory on hdfs
> ("/hbase/users"). that directory contained 2-3 entries when I deleted it.
>
> I still get errors when trying to recreate the table.
>
> I will just add that the reason I've truncated the table at the first place
> was because of getting many "Could not obtain block" exceptions on specific
> blocks in the table.
> I think the table contained 2-3 problematic blocks, so I tried to reload the
> data.
>
> Can anyone think of a solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Oded
>
