I had the same problem a while ago. I fixed this way:
Stopped hbase, connect to Zookepper (hbase zkcli), My table was in /hbase/tables.
Deleted this entry. What was happening in my case was that zookepper "locked" the table in a strange way.
I'm using cloudera distribution. Miguel Costa On 07/17/2012 01:35 PM, Asaf Mesika wrote:
Hi there, I have a strange situation on one of my tables in HBase: * disable/describe 'my_table' works (using HBase shell) * truncate/drop doesn't - yells table does not exists. How do I fix it? HBase Shell quote: hbase(main):003:0> disable 'my_table' 0 row(s) in 0.0480 seconds hbase(main):004:0> truncate 'my_table' Truncating 'my_table' table (it may take a while): ERROR: Unknown table my_table!
