The issue is the mixed path separators being passed to the script saveVersion.sh
I recompiled on Ubuntu and everything is fine now. So the take away is that the exec step can fail however maven reports build successful. thanks ________________________________ From: jeff saremi <jeffsar...@hotmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 6:47:05 PM To: dev@hbase.apache.org Subject: hbase-default.xml seems to be for an older version of HBase I get this baffling error message after doing a compilation of Hbase rel/1.2.2 (on Windows/Mingw) and running it on a windows server. Looking at the source, hbase-default.xml is in the hbase-common project and I verified it to be included in the runtime jar file. I cannot say anything about the contents of this file since it seems to be filled with references and place holders. I am attaching it as extracted from the hbase-common-1.2.2jar. Thanks Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: hbase-default.xml file seems to be for an older version of HBase (1.2.2), this version is Unknown at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration.checkDefaultsVersion(HBaseConfiguration.java:71) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration.addHbaseResources(HBaseConfiguration.java:81) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration.create(HBaseConfiguration.java:96) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.main(HRegionServer.java:2660)