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chenning commented on HBASE-2489: --------------------------------- Forget to ask, is there any way to work this problem around? Thank you. > Make the "Filesystem needs to be upgraded" error message more useful. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-2489 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2489 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: util > Reporter: Benoit Sigoure > Assignee: Benoit Sigoure > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 0.90.0 > > Attachments: > 0001-Improve-the-error-message-File-system-needs-to-be-up.patch > > > The other day, when starting HBase I got this error: > {noformat} > 2010-04-23 09:38:14,847 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Failed > to start master > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FileSystemVersionException: File system needs to > be upgraded. Run the '${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase migrate' script. > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils.checkVersion(FSUtils.java:187) > {noformat} > I was puzzled until I realized, after adding extra debug statements in the > code, that I forgot to properly set {{hbase.rootdir}} after re-deploying my > dev environment. I think the message above was misleading and I'm proposing > a trivial patch to make it a little bit better: > {noformat} > 2010-04-23 09:48:29,000 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Failed > to start master > org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FileSystemVersionException: File system needs to > be upgraded. You have version null and I want version 7. Run the > '${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase migrate' script. > at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils.checkVersion(FSUtils.java:189) > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira