[HBASE-19776] shell gives unfriendly errors for nonexistant table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Drob
• Created: 11/Jan/18 22:25
• Updated: 01/Aug/18 06:21
• Resolved: 11/Jan/18 22:39

Description

When attempting operations against a non-existent table, some of the errors that we get are very unintuitive.

$ bin/hbase shell -n <<< "count 'no_such_table'"
2018-01-11 16:22:54,499 WARN  [main] util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Took 0.4709 seconds                                                                                                                                                                                                                           java exception
ERROR Java::OrgApacheHadoopHbase::TableNotFoundException: Region of 'hbase:namespace,,1515709347596.af9aaacccc132e8baa3dcf2874ce6d93.' is expected in the table of 'no_such_table', but hbase:meta says it is in the table of 'hbase:namespace'. hbase:meta might be damaged.

Similar errors from scan, and from interactive shell instead on noninteractive mode.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HBASE-19775 hbase shell doesn't handle the exceptions that are wrapped in java.io.UncheckedIOException