HBase not starting in standalone mode on Windows

Question

I downloaded HBase 1.0.1 on my Windows machine and wasn't able to get it to start.

I got the following error message:

C:\Users\admin\Downloads\hbase-1.0.1>bin\start-hbase.cmd
Error: Could not find or load main class " "
ERROR: Could not determine the startup mode.

What's the problem here?

Answer 1

There's a problem in how it is forming the java arguments, specific to the memory options.

Work-around: Find the following line in hbase.cmd and REMOVE %HEAP_SETTINGS%.

set java_arguments=%HBASE_OPTS% -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" %CLASS% %hbase-command-arguments%