It means your HBase server never started properly. You need to check logs in HBASE_HOME/logs folder. Hbase shell is just a client to HBase Server. If the server is not up, it won't be able to do much.
Regards, Vaibhav Gumgum On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Ratner, Alan S (IS) <alan.rat...@ngc.com>wrote: > I'm trying to install HBase in stand-alone mode on a laptop running > Ubuntu. I can get as far as running HBase with the "help" and "version" > commands but when I try any of the other commands (such as "create" or > "list") I get something like: > > hbase(main):002:0> create 't1' > 09/11/30 15:37:48 DEBUG client.HConnectionManager$ClientZKWatcher: Got > ZooKeeper event, state: SyncConnected, type: None, path: null > 09/11/30 15:37:48 INFO client.HConnectionManager$TableServers: getMaster > attempt 0 of 5 failed; retrying after sleep of 2000 > java.io.IOException: > org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode = > NoNode for /hbase/master > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZooKeeperWrapper.readAddressOrThrow(Zo > oKeeperWrapper.java:332) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZooKeeperWrapper.readMasterAddressOrTh > row(ZooKeeperWrapper.java:240) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$TableServers.getMaster > (HConnectionManager.java:318) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.<init>(HBaseAdmin.java:72) > ... > > Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong? >
