Are you running hbase in standalone mode ? See http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#zookeeper
bq. To toggle HBase management of ZooKeeper, use the HBASE_MANAGES_ZK variable in conf/hbase-env.sh. Cheers On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, beeshma r <beeshm...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI > > When i start hbase fallowing error is occurred .How to solve this? i > haven't add any zokeeper path anywhere? > > Please suggest this. > > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:java.io.tmpdir=/tmp > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:java.compiler=<NA> > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:os.name=Linux > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:os.arch=amd64 > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:os.version=3.11.0-12-generic > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:user.name=beeshma > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,196 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:user.home=/home/beeshma > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,197 INFO [main] server.ZooKeeperServer: Server > environment:user.dir=/home/beeshma/hbase-0.98.6.1-hadoop2/bin > 2014-11-01 20:01:51,202 ERROR [main] master.HMasterCommandLine: Master > exiting > java.io.IOException: Unable to create data directory > /home/beesh_hadoop2/zookeeper/zookeeper_0/version-2 > at > > org.apache.zookeeper.server.persistence.FileTxnSnapLog.<init>(FileTxnSnapLog.java:85) > at > > org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer.<init>(ZooKeeperServer.java:213) > at > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MiniZooKeeperCluster.startup(MiniZooKeeperCluster.java:162) > at > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MiniZooKeeperCluster.startup(MiniZooKeeperCluster.java:131) > at > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMasterCommandLine.startMaster(HMasterCommandLine.java:165) > at > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMasterCommandLine.run(HMasterCommandLine.java:135) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) > at > > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ServerCommandLine.doMain(ServerCommandLine.java:126) > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.main(HMaster.java:2785) >