All, I had to drop both the SYSTEM.CATALOG and SYSTEM.SEQUENCE tables from hbase do to what appeared to be corruption with these two tables.
I expected that they would be recreated when I first reconnected with sqlline, but they are not. I do see in the Hbase master logs that the create table statement for SYSTEM.CATALOG should be executed, and I do not see any errors around the create statement in the logs, however the table is never created. Any pointers on how to get these two tables recreated? Thanks Justin
