Index: hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/handler/OpenRegionHandler.java =================================================================== --- hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/handler/OpenRegionHandler.java (revision 1517717) +++ hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/handler/OpenRegionHandler.java (working copy) @@ -330,6 +330,9 @@ try { this.services.postOpenDeployTasks(this.region, this.server.getCatalogTracker()); + } catch (KeeperException e) { + server.abort("Exception running postOpenDeployTasks; region=" + + this.region.getRegionInfo().getEncodedName(), e); } catch (Exception e) { LOG.warn("Exception running postOpenDeployTasks; region=" + this.region.getRegionInfo().getEncodedName(), e);