Hi, I am not able to disable an HBase table. Checked out the link: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2812
But is this resolved in 0.90.3.? If so, why is the error occurring after repeated trials. The details of our Hbase installations are as follows: $ hbase HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands. Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell *Version 0.90.3*, r1125027, Wed Dec 7 16:46:36 PST 2011 hbase(main):001:0> status 366 servers, 15 dead, 127.5164 average load hbase(main):003:0> describe 'testtable2' DESCRIPTION ENABLED {NAME => 'testtable2', FAMILIES => [{NAME => 'colfam1', BLOOMFILTER => 'NONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', COMPRESS true ION => 'NONE', VERSIONS => '3', TTL => '2147483647', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', BLOCKCACHE => 't rue'}]} 1 row(s) in 2.1750 seconds *hbase(main):010:0> disable 'testtable2' **ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionException: Retries exhausted, it took too long to wait for the table testtable2 to be disabled. Here is some help for this command: Start disable of named table: e.g. "hbase> disable 't1'" *This table data has occupied 1 Region Server which has 133 regions. Any help is much appreciated. Regards, Narayanan