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Failed to query data from hbase thrift server in CM 6.1.0

Travis — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:43:12 GMT

I configured the hbase thrift server role in order to query data from Hue. After the server is restarted, I tried to query from Hue and got connection error. I looked at hbase thrift log file from /var/log/hbase/hbase-cmf-hbase-HBASETHRIFTSERVER-hostname.log.out and found this error: 2019-01-10 18:19:14,257 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.ThriftServerRunner: starting TBoundedThreadPoolServer on /0.0.0.0:9090 with readTimeout 60000ms; min worker threads=200, max worker threads=1000, max queued requests=1000 2019-01-10 18:19:46,303 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer: Thrift error occurred during processing of message. org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Expected protocol id ffffff82 but got ffffff80 at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TCompactProtocol.readMessageBegin(TCompactProtocol.java:503) at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:27) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer$ClientConnnection.run(TBoundedThreadPoolServer.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) 2019-01-10 18:19:46,325 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer: Thrift error occurred during processing of message. org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Expected protocol id ffffff82 but got ffffff80 at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TCompactProtocol.readMessageBegin(TCompactProtocol.java:503) at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:27) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer$ClientConnnection.run(TBoundedThreadPoolServer.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) 2019-01-10 18:19:46,329 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer: Thrift error occurred during processing of message. org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Expected protocol id ffffff82 but got ffffff80 at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TCompactProtocol.readMessageBegin(TCompactProtocol.java:503) at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:27) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.thrift.TBoundedThreadPoolServer$ClientConnnection.run(TBoundedThreadPoolServer.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) It looks like the thrift protocol version is wrong. How to fix this issue? Thanks!

Re: Failed to query data from hbase thrift server in CM 6.1.0

lwang — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:54:11 GMT

Hi @Travis,

What is your CDH version? After you added hbase thrift server role, did you make sure to do below?

Go to Hue service > Configuration > Service-Wide and check that HBase Service and HBase Thrift Server both have an appropriate instance selected and that it is not None.

Also, can you please provide us the /var/log/hue/runcpserver.log from the Hue server for review? What was the detail error message you got from Hue UI when you tried to browse Hbase table?

Thanks,

Re: Failed to query data from hbase thrift server in CM 6.1.0

Travis — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:56:19 GMT

I am using Cloudera 6.1.0 and already conconfiured it as guided in the document.

I figured out that there is a Thrift protocol in Hbase Thrift server which is compact by default. After I unchecked the compact checkbox. It turns out to be fine.

Re: Failed to query data from hbase thrift server in CM 6.1.0

ylchew93 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 04:26:23 GMT

Your apporach worked for me too!!!! 😄

Re: Failed to query data from hbase thrift server in CM 6.1.0

lwang — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 05:34:09 GMT

Hi @Travis,

Thanks for the solution. This is great information. @ylchew93, thank you for confirming the solution. That is helpful.

For your information, I did some further investigation, and found out:

1) Starting Cloudera Manager 6.x, hbase.regionserver.thrift.compact propery is set to true by default;

2) From HUE-2692, it looks like Hue has not supported TCompactProtocol protocol yet.

I will file a internal jira on this and see how we can improve in the future.

Thanks!