Hbase on a VM: Can not access zookeeper after coming out of sleep on a laptop

Question

The following error occurs on a VM after bringing the laptop out of sleep or hiberation

ERROR: Can't get master address from ZooKeeper; znode data == null

This error occurs when running any simple command from the hbase shell, for example:

/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/etc/hbase/conf.dist $hbase shell
Version 0.96.1.1-cdh5.0.0, rUnknown, Thu Mar 27 23:03:17 PDT 2014

hbase(main):001:0> list
TABLE                                                                                                                     

ERROR: Can't get master address from ZooKeeper; znode data == null

Has anyone worked with HBase on a VM and a laptop, or have any insight on what is happening and how to handle this?

Note: please do not flag as DUPLICATE. Yes, there are two other related questions.

But: the answer to the first one does not apply to my situation - since the settings are for standalone alrady in my case:

get "ERROR: Can't get master address from ZooKeeper; znode data == null" when using Hbase shell

The second one never received any answer (possibly due to the questionable formatting/wording):

HBase on Hortonworks HDP Sandbox: Can't get master address from ZooKeeper

Answer 1

Looks like I will just need to live with this. The fastest workaround is to restart zookeeper. That is actually not so bad - at least not as painful as restarting all of HBase.