[HBASE-575] hbase master dies with stack overflow error if rootdir isn't qualified

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.1.2, 0.2.0
• Assignee: Jim Kellerman
• Reporter: Michael Bieniosek
• Created: 11/Apr/08 17:52
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 21:13
• Resolved: 15/Apr/08 21:43

Description

With a relative rootdir (/hbase/), the hbase master throws this on startup:

08/04/11 17:53:00 ERROR hbase.HMaster: Can not start master
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HMaster.doMain(HMaster.java:3329)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HMaster.main(HMaster.java:3363)
Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.net.URI$Parser.checkChars(Unknown Source)