How could we improve the doc Stephen? Was the problem that it was only in the quick start section? Thanks. St.Ack
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Boesch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > >
