wow! Thanks for all your help. I just took the add_table.rb script for a run
and it worked flawlessly. Kudos to the community!

I'm still curious as to what might have happened? Was the .META. table just
slightly out of whack?

-mike

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:36 PM, mike anderson <[email protected]>wrote:

> This was a table that had been around for almost two months now and had
> many regions. The web UI reports 231 regions, and I am certain that the
> tables being reported don't have nearly that many regions, so perhaps this
> count includes those from the missing table.
>
> In the folder: /hbase/cached_web_pages/1102708773/http is a single 130MB
> file full of rows/columns. We are caching the full html of websites into the
> columns so copying and pasting some of the rows won't be very useful, but
> the chunk starts with this:
>
> "DATABLK*f 
> #ŸRhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.informaworld.com%2Fsmpp%2Ftitle%7Edb%3Dall%7Econtent%3Dg903750466
> httpdata $í ó "
>
> I tried to enable a region, but get:
>
>  from (hbase):3hbase(main):003:0> enable_region
> 'cached_web_pages,metapress_ris_120417,1257429337740'
> NativeException: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
>  from org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Writables.java:74:in `getWritable'
> from sun/reflect/NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:-2:in `invoke0'
>  from sun/reflect/NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39:in `invoke'
> from sun/reflect/DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25:in `invoke'
>  from java/lang/reflect/Method.java:597:in `invoke'
> from org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:298:in
> `invokeWithExceptionHandling'
>  from org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:278:in `invoke_static'
> from org/jruby/java/invokers/StaticMethodInvoker.java:57:in `call'
>  from org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:150:in `call'
> from org/jruby/ast/CallTwoArgNode.java:59:in `interpret'
>  from org/jruby/ast/LocalAsgnNode.java:123:in `interpret'
> from org/jruby/ast/NewlineNode.java:104:in `interpret'
>  from org/jruby/ast/BlockNode.java:71:in `interpret'
> from org/jruby/internal/runtime/methods/InterpretedMethod.java:201:in
> `call'
>  from org/jruby/internal/runtime/methods/DefaultMethod.java:162:in `call'
> from org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:150:in `call'
> ... 112 levels...
> from org/jruby/internal/runtime/methods/DynamicMethod.java:226:in `call'
> from org/jruby/internal/runtime/methods/CompiledMethod.java:211:in `call'
>  from org/jruby/internal/runtime/methods/CompiledMethod.java:71:in `call'
> from org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:253:in `cacheAndCall'
>  from org/jruby/runtime/callsite/CachingCallSite.java:72:in `call'
> from usr/local/hbase/bin/$_dot_dot_/bin/hirb.rb:487:in `__file__'
>  from usr/local/hbase/bin/$_dot_dot_/bin/hirb.rb:-1:in `load'
> from org/jruby/Ruby.java:577:in `runScript'
>  from org/jruby/Ruby.java:480:in `runNormally'
> from org/jruby/Ruby.java:354:in `runFromMain'
>  from org/jruby/Main.java:229:in `run'
> from org/jruby/Main.java:110:in `run'
>  from org/jruby/Main.java:94:in `main'
> from /usr/local/hbase/bin/../bin/HBase.rb:138:in `enable_region'
>  from /usr/local/hbase/bin/../bin/hirb.rb:350:in `enable_region'
> from (hbase):4hbase(main):004:0>
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -mike
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> What's in the HDFS folder of that table? Here I see that you should
>> have something like:
>>
>> /hbase/cached_web_pages/1325672518/http/  stuff...
>>
>> Was there only this one region?
>>
>> Also are you able to enable a region in the shell? Take one of the row
>> key from .META. and do
>>
>> > enable_region 'region name'
>>
>> J-D
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM, mike anderson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Here's a snippit from the meta table (I can send you the whole thing,
>> but
>> > it's quite large),
>> >
>> > cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=info:serverstartcode,
>> > timestamp=1259853027975, value=1259852967063
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252
>> >
>> >  Fajpa.21214,1259739437144
>> >
>> >  cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=historian:assignment,
>> > timestamp=1259807436758, value=Region assigned to se
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252 rver
>> > ghetto169.projectlounge.com,60020,1256139356112
>> >
>> >  Fejoc.200900768,12555040994
>> >
>> >  35
>> >
>> >  cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=historian:open,
>> timestamp=1259807436723,
>> > value=Region opened on server : g
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252 hetto169.projectlounge.com
>> >
>> >  Fejoc.200900768,12555040994
>> >
>> >  35
>> >
>> >  cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=historian:assignment,
>> > timestamp=1259853024917, value=Region assigned to se
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252 rver
>> > ghetto167.projectlounge.com,60020,1259852967063
>> >
>> >  Fsmi.1285,1258589376676
>> >
>> >  cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=historian:open,
>> timestamp=1259853027984,
>> > value=Region opened on server : g
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252 hetto167.projectlounge.com
>> >
>> >  Fsmi.1285,1258589376676
>> >
>> >  cached_web_pages,http%3A%2F column=info:regioninfo,
>> > timestamp=1258589203875, value=REGION => {NAME => 'cached
>> >  %2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1002%252 _web_pages,http\\x253A\\x252F\\
>> x252Fdx.doi.org
>> > \\x252F10.1002\\x25252Fsmi.1285,125
>> >  Fsmi.1285,1258589376676     8589376676', STARTKEY =>
>> 'http\\x253A\\x252F\\
>> > x252Fdx.doi.org\\x252F10.1002\\x252
>> >                             52Fsmi.1285', ENDKEY =>
>> 'http\\x253A\\x252F\\
>> > x252Fdx.doi.org\\x252F10.1016\\x252F
>> >                             j.apergo.2009.09.005', ENCODED =>
>> 1325672518,
>> > TABLE => {{NAME => 'cached_web_page
>> >                             s', FAMILIES => [{NAME => 'http', VERSIONS
>> =>
>> > '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', TTL =>
>> >                             '2147483647', BLOCKSIZE => '65536',
>> IN_MEMORY
>> > => 'false', BLOCKCACHE => 'true'}]}
>> >                             }
>> >
>> >
>> > and you can see the table which has gone missing 'cached_web_pages' in
>> the
>> > key spot. The crash over the weekend was pretty traumatic. Complete
>> power
>> > outage to the entire cluster except(!) for the master.  The data is
>> > definitely still on HDFS, I will take a look at the add_table script and
>> > upgrade to 0.20.2.
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers and thanks a lot.
>> >
>> > mike
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> This is weird if the table is in .META. and still not showing up...
>> >> could you pastebin the .META. rows?
>> >>
>> >> Also was it a new table that was just created or has it been there for
>> >> some time?
>> >>
>> >> What kind of crash did you get this weekend?
>> >>
>> >> The best way to recover your data, if it's still on HDFS, will be to
>> >> upgrade to 0.20.2 and use the script bin/add_table.rb to rebuild
>> >> .META.
>> >>
>> >> J-D
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, mike anderson <[email protected]
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > From the web UI and from calling 'list' in the shell I can't see the
>> >> table
>> >> > name.
>> >> >
>> >> > Hadoop/Hbase 0.20/0.20.1, distributed setup, 10 nodes.
>> >> >
>> >> > -mike
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <
>> [email protected]
>> >> >wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Mike,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So if you looked in .META. and the rows are there, how did you
>> figure
>> >> >> that the table is missing?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Also the usuals: which version of Hadoop/HBase, what kind of setup,
>> etc
>> >> >>
>> >> >> J-D
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:29 AM, mike anderson <
>> [email protected]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hbase crashed on me this weekend, and upon restarting one of the
>> >> tables
>> >> >> is
>> >> >> > just completely gone. All of the table data is still in HDFS and
>> my
>> >> >> missing
>> >> >> > table is still mentioned in .META.. I tried restarting hbase a few
>> >> times,
>> >> >> > but the table didn't show up. What else can I do to debug this? I
>> >> looked
>> >> >> > through the logs, but nothing really jumped out at me. Is there
>> >> something
>> >> >> I
>> >> >> > should look for?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I took a look at this ticket,
>> >> >> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1342, but don't know
>> >> enough
>> >> >> about
>> >> >> > the inner workings of hbase to make sense of it.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > thanks in advance.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
>

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