Master - dont shut down cluster if you run into a fatal error
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                 Key: HBASE-3032
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3032
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 0.89.20100621
            Reporter: ryan rawson
            Priority: Blocker
             Fix For: 0.90.0


Saw this message:

2010-09-22 13:10:03,547 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MetaScanner: 
Caught error. Starting shutdown.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
        at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:597)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient$Connection.setupIOstreams(HBaseClient.java:328)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient.getConnection(HBaseClient.java:857)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseClient.call(HBaseClient.java:725)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC$Invoker.invoke(HBaseRPC.java:252)
        at $Proxy1.openScanner(Unknown Source)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.BaseScanner.scanRegion(BaseScanner.java:182)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MetaScanner.scanOneMetaRegion(MetaScanner.java:73)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MetaScanner.maintenanceScan(MetaScanner.java:129)
        at 
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.BaseScanner.chore(BaseScanner.java:156)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Chore.run(Chore.java:68)

At this point the regionservers were instructed to exit, which caused more 
problems than if the master just terminated itself.  

This would prevent a backup master from picking up since the cluster is 
terminating!

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