[AMBARI-16844] Create directory for hbase user when hbase is deployed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Assignee: Andrew Onischuk
• Reporter: Ted Yu
• Created: 24/May/16 14:04
• Updated: 26/May/16 19:45
• Resolved: 26/May/16 16:50

Description

HBase backups fail if there is no /user/{hbase_user} directory in HDFS.

2016-05-18 00:05:41,051 ERROR [ProcedureExecutorThread-1] snapshot.ExportSnapshot: Snapshot export failed
org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=hbase, access=WRITE, inode="/user/hbase/.staging":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.check(FSPermissionChecker.java:319)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.check(FSPermissionChecker.java:292)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:213)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.checkPermission(FSPermissionChecker.java:190)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkPermission(FSDirectory.java:1813)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkPermission(FSDirectory.java:1797)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.checkAncestorAccess(FSDirectory.java:1780)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirMkdirOp.mkdirs(FSDirMkdirOp.java:71)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.mkdirs(FSNamesystem.java:4002)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNodeRpcServer.mkdirs(NameNodeRpcServer.java:1098)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocolPB.ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.mkdirs(ClientNamenodeProtocolServerSideTranslatorPB.java:630)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.proto.ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos$ClientNamenodeProtocol$2.callBlockingMethod(ClientNamenodeProtocolProtos.java)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.ProtobufRpcEngine$Server$ProtoBufRpcInvoker.call(ProtobufRpcEngine.java:644)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:969)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2268)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:2264)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method

/user/{hbase_user} directory should be created automatically.
hbase_user is the name of the hbase user

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