get “ERROR: Can't get master address from ZooKeeper; znode data == null” when using Hbase shell

Question

I installed Hadoop2.2.0 and Hbase0.98.0 and here is what I do :

$ ./bin/start-hbase.sh 

$ ./bin/hbase shell

2.0.0-p353 :001 > list

the

Answer 1

You need to start zookeeper and then run Hbase-shell

{HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase-daemons.sh {start,stop} zookeeper

and you may want to check this property in hbase-env.sh

# Tell HBase whether it should manage its own instance of Zookeeper or not.
export HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=false

Refer to Source - Zookeeper