Hi Yves, Which version of HBase are you trying with? It should be working with Java 1.7.
To start HBase, are you trying "bin/start-hbase.sh start" as you said below? On only "bin/start-hbase.sh"? The later is the correct one while the former as an extra "start" not required at the end. JM 2013/4/25 Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I'm having an issue with getting HBase to run. I'm following this tutorial: > http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#start_hbase > > When I run that command [ bin/start-hbase.sh start ], nothing happens. At > all. > My question is why. I have Java 1.7 on this machine, do I _need_ to get > 1.6?