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Michael Brown 6d8c075d9c IMPALA-1996: Start HBase per directions in documentation; Implement HBase startup retry
I. Start HBase per directions

1. https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#_configuration_files mentions a
'regionservers' file that points to a list of hosts on which to start
HBase RegionServers. When HBase starts in our mini-cluster there are
messages printed like this:

cat: /home/mikeb/Impala/fe/src/test/resources/regionservers: No such file or directory

The presence of this file now starts a single RegionServer and takes the
place of RegionServer 1 in the "additional region servers" startup, a
separate call.

2. The additional RegionServers are started but now we only start 2 from
index 2. See https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart_pseudo

There are still 3 total RegionServers using the same ports as before. We
are simply configuring our settings as directed in the documentation.

There were mentions in testdata/bin/run-hbase.sh of a "hbase race". One
possible such bug is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5780
which has been fixed for a while. I've removed the check to wait for
that Master, though I have not removed the Python script that does the
waiting. We could remove that later after we let this patch bake.

Also, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4467 has been marked
"not a problem", so I've removed references to that.

II. Implement HBase start retry

If starting either HBase Master or additional RegionServers fails, kill
all of HBase and try again.  Do this for some number of attempts.

In order to keep errexit ("set -e") happy, we expect the possibility of
some of the startup attempts failing. We use control flow in those
cases. In the last case, errexit can fail on our behalf.

There is some code duplication here, but because Bash can't give us a
stack trace on failure, and only a line number, I chose not to use
functions to handle reuse. We don't really have functions anywhere else
at the moment, either.

Testing:

It's pretty difficult to try to trigger a real "HBase fails to start"
situation. I tested my changes by faking HBase failures, both when
starting up the Master and first RegionServer, and also starting
subsequent RegionServers.

Multiple private builds have passed.

Change-Id: Ib1d055a8a9098ce24e2f31b969501b6e090eab19
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/2804
Reviewed-by: Michael Brown <mikeb@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Internal Jenkins
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