[HBASE-7838] HBase regionserver never stops when running `hbase-daemon.sh stop regionserver`

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.92.1, 0.94.4, 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.1
• Component/s: regionserver, scripts, shell

Environment

Using CDH4.1.2

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Add timeout (default 1200 seconds) on stopping services with hbase-daemon.sh. The timeout is configurable with the environment variable HBASE_STOP_TIMEOUT.
• Assignee: Damien Hardy
• Reporter: Damien Hardy
• Created: 13/Feb/13 10:57
• Updated: 05/Aug/14 20:12
• Resolved: 23/Apr/13 20:13

Description

Currently running full stack (Hadoop + Hbase + zookeeper) on a VM I want to reboot, every services stopped but HBase regionserver. For 2 days now, it's aligning dots on the console ...
I propose a timeout (default 600 overidable by $HBASE_STOP_TIMEOUT) to force kill -9 on the process.