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Viraj Jasani commented on HBASE-28192:
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Let me add some logs:
regionserver where meta is online:
{code:java}
2023-11-08 18:10:31,079 INFO [MemStoreFlusher.1] regionserver.HStore - Added
hdfs://{cluster}/hbase/data/hbase/meta/1588230740/rep_barrier/3e5faf652f1e4c6db1c4ba1ae676c3ee,
entries=1630, sequenceid=94325525, filesize=362.1 K {code}
master server 4 which thought it was active:
{code:java}
2023-11-08 18:14:34,563 DEBUG [0:becomeActiveMaster]
assignment.AssignmentManager - Loaded hbase:meta state=OPEN,
location=server3-1,61020,1699456864765, table=hbase:meta, region=1588230740
2023-11-08 18:14:34,609 INFO [0:becomeActiveMaster] master.ServerManager -
Registering regionserver=server3-1,61020,1699456864765 {code}
master server 1 which thought it was active:
{code:java}
2023-11-08 18:15:50,350 DEBUG [aster/server1:61000:becomeActiveMaster]
assignment.AssignmentManager - Loaded hbase:meta state=OPEN,
location=server3-1,61020,1698687384632, table=hbase:meta, region=1588230740
2023-11-08 18:15:50,399 INFO [aster/server1:61000:becomeActiveMaster]
master.ServerManager - Registering regionserver=server3-1,61020,1699456864765
{code}
master server 4 gave up:
{code:java}
2023-11-08 18:16:22,776 INFO [aster/server4:61000:becomeActiveMaster]
master.ActiveMasterManager - Another master is the active master,
server1,61000,1699467212235; waiting to become the next active master {code}
When server 4 was trying to be active master and loaded meta, it retrieved the
correct location of meta i.e. server3-1,61020,1699456864765
However, when server 1 (eventual active master) loaded meta, it retrieved
incorrect location i.e. server3-1,61020,1698687384632
For hbase 2.5, i see that HBASE-26193 no longer relies on zookeeper and rather
relies on scanning master region:
{code:java}
// Start the Assignment Thread
startAssignmentThread();
// load meta region states.
// here we are still in the early steps of active master startup. There is
only one thread(us)
// can access AssignmentManager and create region node, so here we do not
need to lock the
// region node.
try (ResultScanner scanner =
masterRegion.getScanner(new Scan().addFamily(HConstants.CATALOG_FAMILY))) {
for (;;) {
Result result = scanner.next();
if (result == null) {
break;
}
RegionStateStore
.visitMetaEntry((r, regionInfo, state, regionLocation, lastHost,
openSeqNum) -> {
RegionStateNode regionNode =
regionStates.getOrCreateRegionStateNode(regionInfo);
regionNode.setState(state);
regionNode.setLastHost(lastHost);
regionNode.setRegionLocation(regionLocation);
regionNode.setOpenSeqNum(openSeqNum);
if (regionNode.getProcedure() != null) {
regionNode.getProcedure().stateLoaded(this, regionNode);
}
if (regionLocation != null) {
regionStates.addRegionToServer(regionNode);
}
if (RegionReplicaUtil.isDefaultReplica(regionInfo.getReplicaId())) {
setMetaAssigned(regionInfo, state == State.OPEN);
}
LOG.debug("Loaded hbase:meta {}", regionNode);
}, result);
}
}
mirrorMetaLocations();
}
{code}
> Master should recover if meta region state is inconsistent
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-28192
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-28192
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.4.17, 2.5.6
> Reporter: Viraj Jasani
> Assignee: Viraj Jasani
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.6.0, 2.4.18, 3.0.0-beta-1, 2.5.7
>
>
> During active master initialization, before we set master as active (i.e.
> {_}setInitialized(true){_}), we need both meta and namespace regions online.
> If the region state of meta or namespace is inconsistent, active master can
> get stuck in the initialization step:
> {code:java}
> private boolean isRegionOnline(RegionInfo ri) {
> RetryCounter rc = null;
> while (!isStopped()) {
> ...
> ...
> ...
> // Check once-a-minute.
> if (rc == null) {
> rc = new RetryCounterFactory(Integer.MAX_VALUE, 1000, 60_000).create();
> }
> Threads.sleep(rc.getBackoffTimeAndIncrementAttempts());
> }
> return false;
> }
> {code}
> In one of the recent outage, we observed that meta was online on a server,
> which was correctly reflected in meta znode, but the server starttime was
> different. This means that as per the latest transition record, meta was
> marked online on old server (same server with old start time). This kept
> active master initialization waiting forever and some SCPs got stuck in
> initial stage where they need to access meta table before getting candidate
> for region moves.
> The only way out of this outage is for operator to schedule recoveries using
> hbck for old server, which triggers SCP for old server address of meta. Since
> many SCPs were stuck, the processing of new SCP too was taking some time and
> manual restart of active master triggered failover, and new master was able
> to complete SCP for old meta server, correcting the meta assignment details,
> which eventually marked master as active and only after this, we were able to
> see real large num of RITs that were hidden so far.
> We need to let master recover from this state to avoid manual intervention.
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