Thank You @Seaport for sharing the Solution for wider audience. In short, you followed the Link [1] to resolve the Protocol Header Issue as utilised by the User in Link [2].    - Smarak   [1] https://github.com/python-happybase/happybase/issues/161 [2] https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Sharing-how-to-solve-HUE-and-HBase-connect-problem-on-CDH-6/td-p/82030   ... View more

Hi, As described in https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18792 The hbck utility is only provided to HBase < 2.0, and have blocked actions that can corrupt metadata in HBase > 2.0 There is a patch for hbck to work in HBase > 2.0 in this JIRA: https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-19121 It's not closed and i have not tried to apply the patch, but it could help. ... View more