hbase cannot find an existing table

Question

I set up a hbase cluster to store data from opentsdb. Recently due to reboot of some of the nodes, hbase lost the table \"tsdb\". I can still it on hbase\'s master node page

Answer 1

To expand on @Devin Bayer's answer, run:

delete /hbase/table/<name_of_zombie_table>

if you find any zombie tables being maintained by the zookeeper. For more help on this issue, you should google 'HBase zombie tables'.

Answer 2

hbase-clean.sh --cleanZk

It works well, simple enough.

Answer 3

I am not very sure why you are unable to scan it. However, to recreate the table, you can try this:

1) Delete all entries in the .META table for this table manually, and

2) Delete the directory corresponding to this table from HDFS

Try creating the table again after that.

Answer 4

If you are using cdh4.3 then the path in zookeeper should be /hbase/table94/

Answer 5

A bit late, maybe it's helpful to the searcher.

1. Run the ZooKeeper shell hbase zkcli
2. In the shell run ls /hbase/table
3. Run rmr /hbase/table/TABLE_NAME
4. Restart Hbase

Answer 6

It is enough to remove the specified table from your zookeeper path. For example if zookeeper.znode.parent is configured to blob in hbase-site.xml you should start zkCli.sh in your zookeeper server shell and remove that directory by rmr /blob/table/tsdb command.