Hi Jim, On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jim R. Wilson <wilson.ji...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Bruno Dumon <br...@outerthought.org>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Jim R. Wilson <wilson.ji...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> What version? The de-facto HBase version is 0.89.xxxxxx (as of Whirr >>> 0.5.0). When I change the "whirr.hbase.tarball.url" to point at HBase >>> 0.90.3, I get the Master won't start error of the other email thread. >> >> >> I didn't specify a version so it was likely the 0.89 one. Maybe I'll give >> it another try tomorrow with 0.90.3. If the problem is the same as with CDH >> (wait with starting the HBase services until the namenode is available), >> then it is easy to apply my fix to the stock hbase configure script as well. >> > > I'm not sure whether the problems are the same. After failing to get > 0.90.3 working I reached out to the community. Digging through the error > logs, it looked like I had a mismatch between hadoop versions. (The one that > HBase required was newer that the one Whirr uses by default, and the one > that HBase prefers is not publically available anywhere). > > I think I made some progress: see the patch and comment I added to WHIRR-240 [1]. I have not tested this on EC2 (only byon), or actually I did, but ran into some unrelated problems that I'll address in a separate mail. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-240 -- Bruno Dumon Outerthought http://outerthought.org/
