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HBase Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  HBase Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517140
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yifeng Jiang Yifeng Jiang
Profile icon Yifeng Jiang
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

HBase Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Setting Up HBase Cluster 2. Data Migration 3. Using Administration Tools 4. Backing Up and Restoring HBase Data 5. Monitoring and Diagnosis 6. Maintenance and Security 7. Troubleshooting 8. Basic Performance Tuning 9. Advanced Configurations and Tuning

Handling the HBase startup error on EC2


In this recipe, we will describe how to troubleshoot the HBase startup error shown in the following Master logs:

2011-12-10 14:04:57,422 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress: Could not resolve the DNS name of ip-10-166-219-206.us-west-1.compute.internal
2011-12-10 14:04:57,423 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Unhandled exception. Starting shutdown.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hostname can't be null
at java.net.InetSocketAddress.<init>(InetSocketAddress.java:121)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress.getResolvedAddress(HServerAddress.java:108)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress.<init>(HServerAddress.java:64)

This error usually happens after stopping and restarting EC2 instances. The reason is that HBase stores region locations in its "system" -ROOT- and .META. tables. The location information contains the internal EC2 DNS name in it. Stopping an EC2 instance will change this DNS name. Due to the...

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