To close the loop here, I wasn't able to repro it again and it seems the issue was due to a race condition in create table commands. Eventually the tableinfo file was missing on HDFS and hence there was an exception storm. I fixed it by manually creating the file with the right definition and then eventually dropping the table.
-Viral On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Viral Bajaria <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi JM, > > Yeah you are right about when the exception happens. I just went through > all the logs of table creation and don't see an exception. Though there > was a "LONG" pause when doing the create table. I cannot find any kind of > logs on the hbase side as to why the long pause happened around that time. > > The bigger problem now is the table does not show up in the hbase ui and I > can't do a drop on it. At the same time the regionserver logs are flooded > with that exception. I think I will have to muck around with ZK and > remove traces of that table. > > Will try to repro this issue but it seems weird since I am able to create > other tables with no issue. > > Thanks, > Viral >
