Region in PENDING_OPEN keeps being bounced between RS and master ----------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-3669 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3669 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.90.1 Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans Priority: Critical Fix For: 0.90.2 After going crazy killing region servers after HBASE-3668, most of the cluster recovered except for 3 regions that kept being refused by the region servers. One the master I would see: {code} 2011-03-17 22:23:14,828 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.AssignmentManager: Regions in transition timed out: supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21. state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=1300400554826 2011-03-17 22:23:14,828 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.AssignmentManager: Region has been PENDING_OPEN for too long, reassigning region=supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21. 2011-03-17 22:23:14,828 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.AssignmentManager: Forcing OFFLINE; was=supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21. state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=1300400554826 2011-03-17 22:23:14,828 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.AssignmentManager: No previous transition plan was found (or we are ignoring an existing plan) for supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21. so generated a random one; hri=supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21., src=, dest=sv2borg171,60020,1300399357135; 17 (online=17, exclude=null) available servers 2011-03-17 22:23:14,828 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.AssignmentManager: Assigning region supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21. to sv2borg171,60020,1300399357135 {code} Then on the region server: {code} 2011-03-17 22:23:14,829 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKAssign: regionserver:60020-0x22d627c142707d2 Attempting to transition node f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21 from M_ZK_REGION_OFFLINE to RS_ZK_REGION_OPENING 2011-03-17 22:23:14,832 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKUtil: regionserver:60020-0x22d627c142707d2 Retrieved 166 byte(s) of data from znode /hbase/unassigned/f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21; data=region=supr_rss_items,ea0a3ac6c8779dab:872333599:ed1a7ad00f076fd98fcd3adcd98b62c6,1285707378709.f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21., server=sv2borg180,60020,1300384550966, state=RS_ZK_REGION_OPENING 2011-03-17 22:23:14,832 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZKAssign: regionserver:60020-0x22d627c142707d2 Attempt to transition the unassigned node for f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21 from M_ZK_REGION_OFFLINE to RS_ZK_REGION_OPENING failed, the node existed but was in the state RS_ZK_REGION_OPENING 2011-03-17 22:23:14,832 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.handler.OpenRegionHandler: Failed transition from OFFLINE to OPENING for region=f11849557c64c4efdbe0498f3fe97a21 {code} I'm not sure I fully understand what was going on... the master was suppose to OFFLINE the znode but then that's not what the region server was seeing? In any case, I was able to recover by doing a force unassign for each region and then assign. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira