Indeed - seems like intermittent timing bug as on a few relaunches as
I can't reproduce now, and have terminated the cluster which failed so
logs gone.  If it resurfaces I'll capture master logs and create
issue.

Thanks,
Tim



On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Andrei Savu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you are affected by timing issues: I suspect the HBase master is
> trying to start before HDFS is available.
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Tim Robertson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> What is the correct way to start the master please?  Should I ssh and
>> use a particular user to start-hbase.sh?  It doesn't work as my user,
>> with various permission issues but I suspect this not to be the
>> correct way anyway.
>>  [NameNode, JobTracker, Zookeeper all start, but HBase master does not]
>
>
> Check configure_hbase.sh:
> https://github.com/apache/whirr/blob/trunk/services/hbase/src/main/resources/functions/configure_hbase.sh
>
>
>
>
> function start_hbase_daemon() {
>
>
>
>   if which dpkg &> /dev/null; then
>
>
>
>     AS_HADOOP="su -s /bin/bash - hadoop -c"
>
>
>
>   elif which rpm &> /dev/null; then
>
>
>
>     AS_HADOOP="/sbin/runuser -s /bin/bash - hadoop -c"
>
>
>
>   fi
>
>   $AS_HADOOP "$HBASE_HOME/bin/hbase-daemon.sh start $1"
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
>
> We are working on splitting that into multiple files:
>
>
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-295
>
>
> I hope this is useful for you.
>
>
> Anything relevant in the HBase Master log file? Something like: "Unable to
> connect to Namenode / HDFS"?
>
>
>
>

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