I have set up HBase and zookeeper for standalone. When I start hbase shell it is starting HMaster gracefully. Even I do jps it shows me HMaster service. But when I check for status on hbase shell then it shows me following exception: Org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MasterNotRunningException: <localhostname>:56111
Not able to nail down the solution of this problem. Thank You, Manish. Sent from my BlackBerry, pls excuse typo