Getting a strange error when attempting to restart HBase in a Docker environment. The sequence of events is as follows: Configure brand new HBase environment pointing to HDFS. docker compose up -> Environment starts with no issues. I can create tables using either hbase shell or Phoenix. docker compose down -> container shutdown sequence is hbase-region-1, hbase-master, zoo-1, data-nodes, namenode docker compose up -> HBase master times out after 5 mins with error: Timedout 300000ms waiting for namespace table to be assigned and enabled: tableName=hbase:namespace, state=ENABLED If I remove the /hbase directory from HDFS and restart the environment it will come back up and will be available until I restart the Docker environment again. Original question asked here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72462299/hbase-error-upon-docker-container-restart-timedout-waiting-for-namespace-table. Getting a similar error.    ... View more