@GeKas you are the Hero of the day.  You saved me from having to call a production maintenance window.  Thanks for your help. ... View more

@denole Yes, i agree with your point. my notion of this was to test when we have quickstart VM for testing. ... View more

Great !...Thank you… I got to have realized lately ... View more

There is a simple method to remove those.   1. List those directories inside a txt file like below   hadoop fs -ls /path > test 2. cat -t test will give you positions of duplicate with junk character 3. open another shell and just try to comment it # to identify exact ones 4. again cat -t the file to confirm u commented the culprits 5. remove original folder frm list 6. for i in `cat list`; do hadoop fs -rmr $i; done ... View more

When you run OfflineMetaRepair, most likely you will run it from your userid or root.  Then we may get some opaque errors like "java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.RpcScheduler.getWriteQueueLength()".    If you check in HDFS, you may see that the meta directory is no longer owned by hbase:   $ hdfs dfs -ls /hbase/data/hbase/ Found 2 items drwxr-xr-x - root hbase 0 2017-09-12 13:58 /hbase/data/hbase/meta drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2016-06-15 15:02 /hbase/data/hbase/namespace Manually chown -R it and restart HBase fixed it for me.     ... View more

5.4.8 has been released.   http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Release-Announcements/Announcing-Cloudera-Enterprise-5-4-8/m-p/33614#U33614 ... View more

Yes, by deleting it from the list, Cloudera Manager will automatically remove it from the ensemble and update the config files of the other three servers. They would need a restart to see the change. ... View more

Thank you! I actually just an hour ago came across that solution when reading this, so I already implemented the solution you suggested, but was still waiting to see if it'd balance out evenly before I posted:   http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/hadoop-troubleshooting-101-kate-ting-cloudera   Regardless, thank you very much for your help in resolving this issue.   ... View more

Thanks for the quick reply. Much appreciated. ... View more