More details: When I SSH into the hbase master node and use the HBase shell to ask for the cluster status, I get this:
hbase(main):001:0> status ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MasterNotRunningException: null Digging into the hbase error log, I see this when I try to start hbase on the master: 2011-07-05 17:12:50,995 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.ActiveMasterManager: Master=ip-10-72-53-214.ec2.internal:60000 2011-07-05 17:12:51,263 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Unhandled exception. Starting shutdown. org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$VersionMismatch: *Protocol org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol version mismatch.* (client = 42, server = 41) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC.getProxy(RPC.java:364) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.createRPCNamenode(DFSClient.java:113) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:215) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.<init>(DFSClient.java:177) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.initialize(DistributedFileSystem.java:82) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createFileSystem(FileSystem.java:1378) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.access$200(FileSystem.java:66) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem$Cache.get(FileSystem.java:1390) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.get(FileSystem.java:196) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.getFileSystem(Path.java:175) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils.getRootDir(FSUtils.java:344) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MasterFileSystem.<init>(MasterFileSystem.java:81) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.finishInitialization(HMaster.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.run(HMaster.java:283) 2011-07-05 17:12:51,266 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Aborting 2011-07-05 17:12:51,266 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Stopping service threads 2011-07-05 17:12:51,266 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.HBaseServer: Stopping server on 60000 Next I'll try explicitly setting the hadoop version... -- Jim On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Jim R. Wilson <wilson.ji...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Whirrers, > > Has anyone successfully run the latest HBase (0.90.3) with the latest > version of Whirr (0.5.0)? > > I'm getting an error about the Master not running when I try to launch the > shell. This happens both from my localhost over the tunnel, and directly > within the master node from an SSH session. Executing bin/start-hbase.sh > doesn't seem to bring it up. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > -- Jim R Wilson (jimbojw) >