Also, might be interesting to look in the RS logs to see what this region can not come back online...
JM 2013/12/10 Kevin O'dell <kevin.od...@cloudera.com> > Hey Raheem, > > You can sideline the table into tmp(mv /hbase/table /tmp/table, then > bring HBase back online. Once HBase is back you can use HBCK to repair > your META -fixMeta -fixAssignments. Once HBase is consistent again, you > can move the table back out of tmp and use HBCK to reupdate META. If the > issue reoccurs let us know. > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Daya, Raheem > <raheem.d...@relayhealth.com>wrote: > > > I have a distributed Hbase cluster that will not start. It looks like > > there is a table that is an inconsistent state: > > 2013-12-10 07:40:50,447 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: > > Unexpected state : > > > ct_claims,204845|81V6SO4EF56DD1TKOIU7AS4L5D,1386050670937.6d138b97cde8bc3e49ff34639913109c. > > state=PENDING_OPEN, ts=1386690050445, server=rhf-045,60020,1386689069486 > .. > > Cannot transit it to OFFLINE. > > > > Is there a way to manually set the table to OFFLINE? I have tried > > deleting the /hbase node in zookeeper. I tried bringing up the master > and > > then a region server and vice versa. In the case of bringing the master > up > > first, the master starts. As soon as I bring up a region server the > master > > goes down. My thought is to move the tables to OFFLINE, (assuming it is > > possible), and try bringing up the cluster again. hbck will not work as > > none of the region servers are up. Any one have any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > Raheem > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Kevin O'Dell > Systems Engineer, Cloudera >