This is just a knowledge sharing article. I had faced this issue in production and took me a day to resolve it. The workaround that I'm sharing will help you in getting your table back online in "Enabled" without deleting Zookeeper Hbase table znode or any data as a matter of fact.. Here are steps to resolve it. 1. Run a "get" command against hbase:meta for the affected table hbase(main):003:0> get 'hbase:meta', '<AFFECTED_TABLE_NAME>', 'table:state' COLUMN CELL table:state timestamp=1551456805377, value=\x08\x02 2. Notice the above "value". Its pointing to \x08\x02 which is wrong. The value should either be \x08\x00 (Enabled) or \x08\x01 (Disabled) 3. Edit the value manually. hbase(main):003:0> put 'hbase:meta','<AFFECTED_TABLE_NAME>','table:state',"\b\0" Click here for more information on "Control Characters" 4. Verify the same. hbase(main):003:0> get 'hbase:meta', '<AFFECTED_TABLE_NAME>', 'table:state' The "value" now should be \x08\x00 Post this, again run disable <table_name> and enable <table_name> just for the love of sanity check in hbase shell and you are done with the issue.
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