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Posted to user@hbase.apache.org by jeevi tesh <je...@gmail.com> on 2014/10/22 13:14:07 UTC

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must start with / character

Hi,
I'm using hbase0.94.3, hadoop-2.2.0 and jdk 1.7.67 version..
In hbase shell if i issue any command i'm getting
ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must start with / character
hbase-site.xml file content
<property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
        <value>file:////home/hadoop/hbase_root_dir/hbase</value>
          </property>
            <property>
                <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>

<value>/home/hadoop/zoo_keeper_root_dir/zookeeper</value>
                      </property>
                        <property>
                                <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>
                                        <value>10.200.1.145</value>
                                          </property>
                                          <property>

<name>zookeeper.znode.parent</name>

<value>file:////home/hadoop/hbase_root_dir/hbdata</value>
kindly help me to resolve the issue

Re: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must start with / character

Posted by Ted Yu <yu...@gmail.com>.
The error was about zookeeper.znode.parent config value. 

It shouldn't start with file:

Cheers

On Oct 22, 2014, at 4:14 AM, jeevi tesh <je...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using hbase0.94.3, hadoop-2.2.0 and jdk 1.7.67 version..
> In hbase shell if i issue any command i'm getting
> ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must start with / character
> hbase-site.xml file content
> <property>
>    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
>        <value>file:////home/hadoop/hbase_root_dir/hbase</value>
>          </property>
>            <property>
>                <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
> 
> <value>/home/hadoop/zoo_keeper_root_dir/zookeeper</value>
>                      </property>
>                        <property>
>                                <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>
>                                        <value>10.200.1.145</value>
>                                          </property>
>                                          <property>
> 
> <name>zookeeper.znode.parent</name>
> 
> <value>file:////home/hadoop/hbase_root_dir/hbdata</value>
> kindly help me to resolve the issue