[HBASE-5472] LoadIncrementalHFiles loops forever if the target table misses a CF

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.94.3, 0.94.4, 0.95.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.95.1
• Component/s: mapreduce
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Yu Li
• Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
• Created: 24/Feb/12 07:02
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 19:08
• Resolved: 24/Apr/13 04:52

Description

I have some HFiles for two column families 'y','z', but I specified a target table that only has CF 'y'.
I see the following repeated forever.
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12/02/23 22:57:37 WARN mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles: Attempt to bulk load region containing into table z with files [family:y path:hdfs://bunnypig:9000/bulk/z2/y/bd6f1c3cc8b443fc9e9e5fddcdaa3b09, family:z path:hdfs://bunnypig:9000/bulk/z2/z/38f12fdbb7de40e8bf0e6489ef34365d] failed. This is recoverable and they will be retried.
12/02/23 22:57:37 DEBUG client.MetaScanner: Scanning .META. starting at row=z,,00000000000000 for max=2147483647 rows using org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation@7b7a4989
12/02/23 22:57:37 INFO mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles: Split occured while grouping HFiles, retry attempt 1596 with 2 files remaining to group or split
12/02/23 22:57:37 INFO mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles: Trying to load hfile=hdfs://bunnypig:9000/bulk/z2/y/bd6f1c3cc8b443fc9e9e5fddcdaa3b09 first=r last=r
12/02/23 22:57:37 INFO mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles: Trying to load hfile=hdfs://bunnypig:9000/bulk/z2/z/38f12fdbb7de40e8bf0e6489ef34365d first=r last=r
12/02/23 22:57:37 DEBUG mapreduce.LoadIncrementalHFiles: Going to connect to server region=z,,1330066309814.d5fa76a38c9565f614755e34eacf8316., hostname=localhost, port=60020 for row
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