When assigning regions to an address, check the regionserver is actually online first -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-3918 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3918 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Reporter: stack This one came up in the case where the data was copied from one cluster to another. The first cluster was running 0.89.x. The second 0.90.x. On startup of 0.90.x, it wanted to verify .META. was in the location -ROOT- said it was at, so it tried connect to the FIRST cluster. The attempt failed because of mismatched RPCs. The master then actually aborted. {code} org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC$VersionMismatch: Protocol org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HRegionInterface version mismatch. (client = 27, server = 24) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC.getProxy(HBaseRPC.java:424) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC.getProxy(HBaseRPC.java:393) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC.getProxy(HBaseRPC.java:444) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseRPC.waitForProxy(HBaseRPC.java:349) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.getHRegionConnection(HConnectionManager.java:965) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.CatalogTracker.getCachedConnection(CatalogTracker.java:386) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.CatalogTracker.getMetaServerConnection(CatalogTracker.java:285) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.CatalogTracker.verifyMetaRegionLocation(CatalogTracker.java:486) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.assignRootAndMeta(HMaster.java:442) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.finishInitialization(HMaster.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.run(HMaster.java:283) 2011-05-23 22:38:07,720 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Aborting {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira