Looks like your .META. is confused about things, or your master is editing it in a weird way. AFAIK, it's not a known issue with 0.20.5.
I would advise first scanning the .META. table and look if your rows are changing between shell invocations (just look at the first row of each table). If it does change, look at what the master is doing by tailing its log file, it could be hung disabling tables or something weirder. If you can't figure it, feel free to pastebin the outputs so we can look at them. J-D On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Karthik Kambatla <karthik.shashank.kamba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Ryan for understanding the pain :) > > Is there a work-around for the time being? I haven't experienced any such > issues with earlier versions of HBase. Was I just lucky or would it make > sense to revert to earlier questions? > > Thanks > Karthik > > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This sucks, and there are being substantial reworks to master >> functions in 0.90 :-) >> >> Hopefully that will permanently address these kinds of bugs. >> >> Hopefully within a few weeks there'll be a developer preview (0.89 >> series) that has that code. >> >> -ryan >> >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Karthik Kambatla >> <kkamb...@cs.purdue.edu> wrote: >> > Hi all >> > >> > I have been noticing a slightly flaky behavior with respect to >> > HBaseAdmin.tableExists(). After I have created the table, it returns >> > true/false every time when called. In hbase shell, the list command >> prints >> > out all the tables sometimes, and shows no tables on other occasions. Any >> > ideas as to why this happens? >> > >> > The master on my cluster runs the HDFS - namenode, secondary namenode; >> HBase >> > - HMaster, HQuorumPeer. The 12 slaves run the HDFS datanode and HBase >> > HRegionServer. Below is the transcript of operations on hbase shell... >> Every >> > time I exit and enter hbase shell, the output changes. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Karthik >> > >> > hbase(main):002:0> count 'SUBSCRIPTIONS' >> > 0 row(s) in 6.0560 seconds >> > hbase(main):003:0> create 'Test' >> > 0 row(s) in 1.0840 seconds >> > hbase(main):004:0> list >> > SUBSCRIPTIONS >> > >> > >> > 1 row(s) in 0.0090 seconds >> > >> > hbase(main):010:0> create 'Test' >> > NativeException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableExistsException: >> > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableExistsException: Test >> > at >> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.createTable(HMaster.java:798) >> > at >> org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.createTable(HMaster.java:762) >> > at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor13.invoke(Unknown Source) >> > 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) >> > >> > >> > hbase(main):011:0> list >> > SUBSCRIPTIONS >> > >> > 1 row(s) in 0.0070 seconds >> > hbase(main):012:0> exit >> > >> > [kamba...@mercado-2 ~]$ hbase shell >> > HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands. >> > Version: 0.20.5, rUnknown, Thu Jul 15 22:27:05 PDT 2010 >> > hbase(main):001:0> list >> > TOPICS >> > >> > Test >> > >> > TestTable >> > >> > USERS >> > >> > 4 row(s) in 0.0930 seconds >> > hbase(main):005:0> exit >> > >> > [kamba...@mercado-2 ~]$ hbase shell >> > HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands. >> > Version: 0.20.5, rUnknown, Thu Jul 15 22:27:05 PDT 2010 >> > hbase(main):001:0> list >> > EVENTS >> > >> > SUBSCRIPTIONS >> > >> > TOPICS >> > >> > TestTable >> > >> > USERS >> > >> > 5 row(s) in 0.1000 seconds >> > >> >
