Ryan, Vishal,

Yep, right after I sent the email we figured out that the problem was on the 
Hadoop side. We are tracking it down; thanks for the very quick responses.
Ron

Ronald Taylor, Ph.D.
Computatational Biology & Bioinformatics Group
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept of Energy/Battelle)
Richland, WA 99352
phone: (509) 372-6568
email: [email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: Vishal Kapoor [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: problem bringing Hbase back up after power outage and removal of 
nodes

you should have more info on why dfs is in the safe mode in the logs,
you can always leave safe mode

hadoop dfs -safemode leave

but again, thats a symptom, not a problem.

Vishal

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Taylor, Ronald C <[email protected]>wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We had a power outage here, and we are trying to bring our Hadoop/HBase
> cluster back up. Hadoop has been just fine - came up smoothly. HBase has
> not. Our HBase master log file is filled with just one msg:
>
> 2011-03-17 10:50:08,712 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils: Waiting
> for dfs to exit safe mode...
> 2011-03-17 10:50:18,714 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils: Waiting
> for dfs to exit safe mode...
>
> After the power outage, before we tried bringing things back up, we took
> several nodes off-line, as their hard drives were failing and needed
> replacing. Don't know if the loss of those nodes has anything to do with the
> error msg that we are seeing.
>
> Could anybody give us some advice as to where to look for the cause of the
> HBase failure? We would very much appreciate guidance.
>
> Ron
>
> Ronald Taylor, Ph.D.
> Computatational Biology & Bioinformatics Group
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept of Energy/Battelle)
> Richland, WA 99352
> phone: (509) 372-6568
> email: [email protected]
>
>
>

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