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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: Simple but Reliable configuration for pseudo distributed mode on
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How could we improve the doc Stephen?  Was the problem that it was only in
the quick start section?  Thanks.
St.Ack


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Stephen Boesch <javadba@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK found the issue, it was the old ubuntu localhost anomaly of  127.0.1.1
> vs 127.0.0.1   Changing /etc/hosts to use the latter fixed the issue
>
> Here is the quick start reference to it
>
> http://hbase.apache.org/book/quickstart.html
> Loopback IP
>
> HBase expects the loopback IP address to be 127.0.0.1. Ubuntu and some
> other distributions, for example, will default to 127.0.1.1 and this will
> cause problems for you.
>
> /etc/hosts should look something like this:
>
>             127.0.0.1 localhost
>             127.0.0.1 ubuntu.ubuntu-domain ub
>
>
>
> 2013/5/22 Stephen Boesch <javadba@gmail.com>
>
> >
> > I have not been able to bring up a simple standalone hbase pseuo
> > distributed mode cluster on a single ubuntu 12.x machine.  A couple of
> > co-workers that have been using hbase for years also looked at it and we
> > have not been able to resolve.
> >
> > Before I jump in to the details, i'll just say : "hey is there a pointer
> > to a well known configuration that just works?"  I don't have any special
> > requirements beyond the following:
> >        ubuntu 12.x
> >        single machine pseudo distributed
> >        preference for hbase 0.92.2 but not a showstopper for newer
> versions
> >        apache (not cdh, etc) hadoop 1.X (version not important to me
> > beyond that)
> >
> >
> > Some more details on the setup:
> >
> >    using hadoop 1.0.3 .  HDFS and map/reduce been working fine for months
> >    hbase 0.92.2
> >    zookeeper: have tried both hbase manages zk=true as well as false (and
> > with zk 3.3.6)
> >    hdfs: using localhost:8020
> >    Launching hbase with start-hbase.sh
> >          master comes up
> >          regiion server comes up
> >          region server shows as "region in transition" and never
> > completes/never starts serving regions
> >          Appears that master does not register properly with ZK - though
> > there *is * a new  /hbase/master node in zookeeper , it oes not have any
> > entries.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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