Did you happen to start hbase master process before trying to access hbase
shell ?

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I want to setup HBase in standalone mode on local filesystem.
> I want to use local file system so I guess no need to install hadoop
> and zookeeper.
> I followed the instructions from
> http://hbase.apache.org/book/quickstart.html
> i didnt set hbase.rootdir in conf/hbase-site.xml as it will use default
> /tmp
>
> I am using Kubuntu 12.10 and and
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk as java 1.6 is required.
>
> HBase shell is running fine but I am unable to create table
> I am getting error
>
> hbase(main):001:0> create 'test', 'cf'
>
> ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MasterNotRunningException: Retried 7 times
>
> Here is some help for this command:
> Create table; pass table name, a dictionary of specifications per
> column family, and optionally a dictionary of table configuration.
> Dictionaries are described below in the GENERAL NOTES section.
> Examples:
>
>   hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 5}
>   hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1'}, {NAME => 'f2'}, {NAME => 'f3'}
>   hbase> # The above in shorthand would be the following:
>   hbase> create 't1', 'f1', 'f2', 'f3'
>   hbase> create 't1', {NAME => 'f1', VERSIONS => 1, TTL => 2592000,
> BLOCKCACHE => true}
>   hbase> create 't1', 'f1', {SPLITS => ['10', '20', '30', '40']}
>   hbase> create 't1', 'f1', {SPLITS_FILE => 'splits.txt'}
>   hbase> # Optionally pre-split the table into NUMREGIONS, using
>   hbase> # SPLITALGO ("HexStringSplit", "UniformSplit" or classname)
>   hbase> create 't1', 'f1', {NUMREGIONS => 15, SPLITALGO =>
> 'HexStringSplit'}
>
>
> hbase(main):002:0>
>
> could someone tell me where I am wrong?
>
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