[WHIRR-383] HBase cluster launch problem

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: service/hbase

Environment

Amazon EC2

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rok Zlender
• Created: 12/Sep/11 05:59
• Updated: 14/Sep/11 20:53

Description

I am trying to launch a hbase cluster with following settings

whirr.cluster-name=hbase-0.90
whirr.instance-templates=1 zookeeper+hadoop-namenode+hadoop-jobtracker+hbase-master,2 hadoop-datanode+hadoop-tasktracker+hbase-regionserver
hbase-site.dfs.replication=1
whirr.provider=aws-ec2
whirr.identity=${env:AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}
whirr.credential=${env:AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}
whirr.hardware-id=m1.large #Only change from HBase recipe that comes with 0.6.0
whirr.image-id=us-east-1/ami-da0cf8b3
whirr.location-id=us-east-1
whirr.hbase.tarball.url=http://apache.cu.be/hbase/hbase-0.90.3/hbase-0.90.3.tar.gz
whirr.hadoop.tarball.url=http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hadoop-0.20.2-cdh3u1.tar.gz

The only difference between my configuration and stock HBase recipe is that I used m1.large ec2 instances. Cluster launches without problems and I can connect to master node and do

rok@domU-12-31-39-15-24-20:/usr/local/hbase-0.90.3$ bin/hbase shell
HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands.
Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell
Version 0.90.3, r1100350, Sat May  7 13:31:12 PDT 2011

hbase(main):001:0> status
2 servers, 0 dead, 1.0000 average load

hbase(main):002:0> 

Web ui also shows that HBase 0.90.3, r1100350 with Hadoop 0.20.2-cdh3u1 was started.

But on my local machine from where I started this cluster I'm having problems connecting to it. I copied hbase-site.xml that whirr creates to hbase/conf folder and started hbase-proxy.sh. And when I try to connect and do status I get

➜  hbase-0.90.3  bin/hbase shell
HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands.
Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell
Version 0.90.3, r1100350, Sat May  7 13:31:12 PDT 2011

hbase(main):001:0> status
11/09/11 10:49:43 ERROR hbase.HServerAddress: Could not resolve the DNS name of ip-10-2-38-254.ec2.internal:60000

ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve the DNS name of ip-10-2-38-254.ec2.internal:60000

Here is some help for this command:
Show cluster status. Can be 'summary', 'simple', or 'detailed'. The
default is 'summary'. Examples:

  hbase> status
  hbase> status 'simple'
  hbase> status 'summary'
  hbase> status 'detailed'


hbase(main):002:0> 

This looks similar to issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-201 but I don't know where to start debugging or tweaking to get it running properly.

Issue Links

• is related to: WHIRR-201 [HBase] Integration test fails