wiping out the Zookeeper data directory

Question

I am very new to Hadoop/Hbase and zookeeper.
I am facing following exception while running create table command in hbase shell.

org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PleaseHoldException: Master is initializing

in this question it is mentioned that i need to follow these steps:

1. Stop Zookeeper  
2. Wipe the Zookeeper data directory  
3. Restart it

To resolve this issue.

Can someone please explain how to perform these steps in Ubuntu.
Any Help will be highly appreciated

Solution 1

/zookeeperHome/conf/zoo.cfg: file will have data directroy details

tickTime=2000
dataDir=/var/zookeeper
clientPort=2181

see this

Solution 2

By default, the data directory is /tmp/zookeeper. Otherwise check zoo.cfg file. Check for property dataDir and clean up corresponding direcrory.

Comments

[User7723337]

Thanks for replay, but on my Ubuntu i can't find "/tmp/zookeeper" or "zoo.cfg" file either. from one of the conf file of hbase i found that data dir is something "/opt/hbase-data/zookeeper/" but there are only tow folders in this dir "myid" and "version-2" are these the folders that i need to cleanup?

[Nipun Talukdar]

Ok. just clean up that folder

[User7723337]

So i need to delete "myid" and "version-2" folder and run hadoop and hbase again?

[User7723337]

i deleted both of these file and dir but problem is still same. still getting same errors.

[mohit6up]

You need the myid file, that contains an integer that uniquely identifies your zookeeper node. Deleting version-2 was all you needed.

[kisna]

Noticed a Ubuntu "apt-get install zookeeperd" installation default location at ./var/lib/zookeeper/myid with another one in ./etc/zookeeper/conf_example/myid, wonder which config has these referred