See this: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.hadoop.hbase.user/13441
--Suraj On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Narayanan K <knarayana...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Any advise on this? > > Thanks, > Narayanan > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Narayanan K <knarayana...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am not able to disable an HBase table. Checked out the link: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2812 >> >> But is this resolved in 0.90.3.? If so, why is the error occurring after >> repeated trials. >> >> The details of our Hbase installations are as follows: >> >> $ hbase >> HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands. >> Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell >> *Version 0.90.3*, r1125027, Wed Dec 7 16:46:36 PST 2011 >> >> hbase(main):001:0> status >> 366 servers, 15 dead, 127.5164 average load >> >> hbase(main):003:0> describe 'testtable2' >> DESCRIPTION >> ENABLED >> {NAME => 'testtable2', FAMILIES => [{NAME => 'colfam1', BLOOMFILTER => >> 'NONE', REPLICATION_SCOPE => '0', COMPRESS true >> ION => 'NONE', VERSIONS => '3', TTL => '2147483647', BLOCKSIZE => >> '65536', IN_MEMORY => 'false', BLOCKCACHE => 't >> rue'}]} >> 1 row(s) in 2.1750 seconds >> >> *hbase(main):010:0> disable 'testtable2' >> >> **ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.RegionException: Retries exhausted, it >> took too long to wait for the table testtable2 to be disabled. >> >> Here is some help for this command: >> Start disable of named table: e.g. "hbase> disable 't1'" >> >> *This table data has occupied 1 Region Server which has 133 regions. >> >> Any help is much appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> Narayanan >>