OK found the issue, it was the old ubuntu localhost anomaly of 127.0.1.1 vs 127.0.0.1 Changing /etc/hosts to use the latter fixed the issue
Here is the quick start reference to it http://hbase.apache.org/book/quickstart.html Loopback IP HBase expects the loopback IP address to be 127.0.0.1. Ubuntu and some other distributions, for example, will default to 127.0.1.1 and this will cause problems for you. /etc/hosts should look something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 ubuntu.ubuntu-domain ub 2013/5/22 Stephen Boesch <[email protected]> > > I have not been able to bring up a simple standalone hbase pseuo > distributed mode cluster on a single ubuntu 12.x machine. A couple of > co-workers that have been using hbase for years also looked at it and we > have not been able to resolve. > > Before I jump in to the details, i'll just say : "hey is there a pointer > to a well known configuration that just works?" I don't have any special > requirements beyond the following: > ubuntu 12.x > single machine pseudo distributed > preference for hbase 0.92.2 but not a showstopper for newer versions > apache (not cdh, etc) hadoop 1.X (version not important to me > beyond that) > > > Some more details on the setup: > > using hadoop 1.0.3 . HDFS and map/reduce been working fine for months > hbase 0.92.2 > zookeeper: have tried both hbase manages zk=true as well as false (and > with zk 3.3.6) > hdfs: using localhost:8020 > Launching hbase with start-hbase.sh > master comes up > regiion server comes up > region server shows as "region in transition" and never > completes/never starts serving regions > Appears that master does not register properly with ZK - though > there *is * a new /hbase/master node in zookeeper , it oes not have any > entries. > > > > >
