Flume Errors and Fixes

This Blog talks on error related to Flume

Issue 1:  Loading data using Flume 1.3.1 to HBase 0.96.x throws  "The znode for the -ROOT- region doesn't exist!"

When we use Flume 1.3.1 to ingest data to HBase using org.apache.flume.sink.hbase. AsyncHBaseSink, we get the error

20 Apr 2014 10:08:50,069 ERROR [lifecycleSupervisor-1-1-EventThread] (org.hbase.async.HBaseClient$ZKClient$2.processResult:2403) - The znode for the
ROOTregion doesn't exist!

Fix:  Upgrade Asynchbase to 1.5.0