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HBase Administration Cookbook
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HBase Administration Cookbook

by Yifeng Jiang
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Handling the HBase startup error on EC2

In this recipe, we will describe how to troubleshoot the HBase startup error shown in the following Master logs:

2011-12-10 14:04:57,422 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress: Could not resolve the DNS name of ip-10-166-219-206.us-west-1.compute.internal
2011-12-10 14:04:57,423 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster: Unhandled exception. Starting shutdown.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: hostname can't be null
at java.net.InetSocketAddress.<init>(InetSocketAddress.java:121)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress.getResolvedAddress(HServerAddress.java:108)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HServerAddress.<init>(HServerAddress.java:64)

This error usually happens after stopping and restarting EC2 ...

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