I have posted this on hbase user list but i thought makes more sense on spark user list. I am able to read the table in yarn-client mode from spark-shell but I have exhausted all online forums for options to get it working in the yarn-cluster mode through spark-submit.
I am using this code-example http://www.vidyasource.com/blog/Programming/Scala/Java/Data/Hadoop/Analytics/2014/01/25/lighting-a-spark-with-hbase to read a hbase table using Spark with the only change of adding the hbase.zookeeper.quorum through code as it is not picking it from the hbase-site.xml. Spark 1.5.3 HBase 0.98.0 Facing this error - 16/01/20 12:56:59 WARN client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation: Encountered problems when prefetch hbase:meta table: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedException: Failed after attempts=3, exceptions:Wed Jan 20 12:56:58 GMT-07:00 2016, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller@111585e, java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class com.google.protobuf.HBaseZeroCopyByteString cannot access its superclass com.google.protobuf.LiteralByteStringWed Jan 20 12:56:58 GMT-07:00 2016, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller@111585e, java.lang.IllegalAccessError: com/google/protobuf/HBaseZeroCopyByteStringWed Jan 20 12:56:59 GMT-07:00 2016, org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller@111585e, java.lang.IllegalAccessError: com/google/protobuf/HBaseZeroCopyByteString at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:136) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.getRowOrBefore(HTable.java:751) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:147) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.prefetchRegionCache(ConnectionManager.java:1215) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegionInMeta(ConnectionManager.java:1280) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(ConnectionManager.java:1128) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(ConnectionManager.java:1111) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(ConnectionManager.java:1070) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.finishSetup(HTable.java:347) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.<init>(HTable.java:201) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.<init>(HTable.java:159) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableInputFormat.setConf(TableInputFormat.java:101) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD.getPartitions(NewHadoopRDD.scala:111) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:239) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$partitions$2.apply(RDD.scala:237) at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:120) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.partitions(RDD.scala:237) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$take$1.apply(RDD.scala:1281) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:108) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:310) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.take(RDD.scala:1276) I tried adding the hbase protocol jar on spar-defaults.conf and in the driver-classpath as suggested here http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/java-lang-IllegalAccessError-class-com-google-protobuf-HBaseZeroCopyByteString-cannot-access-its-supg-td24303.html but no success. Any suggestions ?