[BIGTOP-2305] Hbase shell not working in ppc64le due to missing jffi native library.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: backlog
• Component/s: build, hbase, ppc64le

Environment

ppc64le

• Assignee: Amir F Sanjar
• Reporter: Ayappan
• Created: 02/Feb/16 12:31
• Updated: 16/Mar/20 05:42

Description

Hbase shell depends on jffi native library ( libjffi-1.0.so ) which is part of jruby-complete-1.6.8.jar file. Currently the jar file hosted on central maven repository don't have the native library for ppc64le. Below is the error message when tried to invoke the hbase shell.

hduser@sovmp132:/usr/lib/hbase/bin$ ./hbase shell
2016-02-02 11:42:10,111 INFO [main] Configuration.deprecation: hadoop.native.lib is deprecated. Instead, use io.native.lib.available
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not locate stub library in jar file. Tried [jni/ppc64-Linux/libjffi-1.0.so, /jni/ppc64-Linux/libjffi-1.0.so]
at com.kenai.jffi.Foreign$InValidInstanceHolder.getForeign(Foreign.java:90)
at com.kenai.jffi.Foreign.getInstance(Foreign.java:95)
at com.kenai.jffi.Library.openLibrary(Library.java:151)
at com.kenai.jffi.Library.getCachedInstance(Library.java:125)
at com.kenai.jaffl.provider.jffi.Library.loadNativeLibraries(Library.java:66)
at com.kenai.jaffl.provider.jffi.Library.getNativeLibraries(Library.java:56)