Connection refused in Hbase Shell while Connecting HBase to HDFS

Question

I am trying to connect my HBase to HDFS. I have my hdfs namenode(bin/hdfs namenode) and datnode(/bin/hdfs datanode) running. I can also start my Hbase (sudo ./bin/start-hbase.sh) and local region servers (sudo ./bin/local-regionservers.sh start 1 2). But when I try to execute a command from Hbase shell it gives the following error:

cis655stu@cis655stu-VirtualBox:/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hbase/hbase-0.99.0-SNAPSHOT$ ./bin/hbase shell
HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands.
Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell
Version 0.99.0-SNAPSHOT, rUnknown, Sat Aug  9 08:59:57 EDT 2014

hbase(main):001:0> list
TABLE                                                                                                    
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hbase/hbase-0.99.0-SNAPSHOT/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hadoop-2.6.0/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
2015-01-19 13:33:07,179 WARN  [main] util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable

ERROR: Connection refused

Here is some help for this command:
List all tables in hbase. Optional regular expression parameter could
be used to filter the output. Examples:

  hbase> list
  hbase> list 'abc.*'
  hbase> list 'ns:abc.*'
  hbase> list 'ns:.*'

Below are my configuration files for HBase and Hadoop:

HBase-site.xml

<configuration>
<property>
<name>hbase.rootdir</name>
<value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value>
</property>

    <!--for psuedo-distributed execution-->
    <property>
      <name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
      <value>true</value>
    </property>
    <property>
      <name>hbase.master.wait.on.regionservers.mintostart</name>
      <value>1</value>
    </property>
      <property>
        <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
        <value>/teaching/14f-cis655/tmp/zk-deploy</value>
      </property>

    <!--for enabling collection of traces
    -->
    <property>
      <name>hbase.trace.spanreceiver.classes</name>
      <value>org.htrace.impl.LocalFileSpanReceiver</value>
    </property>
    <property>
      <name>hbase.local-file-span-receiver.path</name>
      <value>/teaching/14f-cis655/tmp/server-htrace.out</value>
    </property>
    </configuration>

Hdfs-site.xml

<configuration>
<property>
   <name>dfs.replication</name>
   <value>1</value>
 </property>
 <property>
   <name>dfs.namenode.name.dir</name>
   <value>file:/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hadoop-2.6.0/yarn/yarn_data/hdfs/namenode</value>
 </property>
 <property>
   <name>dfs.datanode.data.dir</name>
   <value>file:/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hadoop-2.6.0/yarn/yarn_data/hdfs/datanode</value>
 </property>
 <property>
    <name>hadoop.trace.spanreceiver.classes</name>
    <value>org.htrace.impl.LocalFileSpanReceiver</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hadoop.local-file-span-receiver.path</name>
    <value>/teaching/14f-cis655/proj-dtracing/hadoop-2.6.0/logs/htrace.out</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

Core-site.xml

<configuration>
<property>
   <name>fs.default.name</name>
   <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value>
</property>
</configuration>

Answer 1

Please check does you HDFS is available from shell:

  $ hdfs dfs -ls /hbase

Also make sure that you've all environment variables in hdfs-env.sh file:

HADOOP_CONF_LIB_NATIVE_DIR="/hadoop/lib/native"
HADOOP_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=/hadoop/lib"
HADOOP_HOME=/hadoop
YARN_HOME=/hadoop
HBASE_HOME=/hbase
HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=/hadoop
HBASE_MANAGES_ZK=true

Do you run Hadoop and HBase using the same OS user? If you use separate users, please check if HBase user is allowed to access HDFS.

Make sure that you have a copy of hdfs-site.xml and core-stie.xml (or symlink) files in ${HBASE_HOME}/conf directory.

Also fs.default.name option is deprecated for YARN (but it must still work), you must consider using fs.defaultFS instead.

Do you use Zookeeper? Because you've specified hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir option, but there is no hbase.zookeeper.quorum there, and other significant options. Please read http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#zookeeper for more information.

Please add next option to hdfs-site.xml to make HBase work correctly (replace $HBASE_USER variable by your system user, which is used to run HBase):

<property>
  <name>hadoop.proxyuser.$HBASE_USER.groups</name>
  <value>*</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>hadoop.proxyuser.$HBASE_USER.hosts</name>
  <value>*</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>dfs.support.append</name>
  <value>true</value>
</property>