Running HBase in standalone mode but get hadoop "retrying connect to server" message? - hadoop

Question

I'm trying to run HBase in standalone mode following this tutorial:
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#quickstart
I get the following exception when I try to run
create 'test', 'cf'
in the HBase shell
ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PleaseHoldException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PleaseHoldException: Master is initializing
I've seen questions here regarding this error, but the solutions haven't worked for me.
What is perhaps more troubling, and what may be at the heart of the matter, is that when I stop HBase, I get the following message over and over in the log:
INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client: Retrying connect to server: 192.168.200.1/192.168.200.1:54310. Already tried <n> time(s)
I don't know what server it's trying to connect to- that's not my computer's IP address- and like I said, I'm trying to run HBase in standalone mode.
I would really appreciate if someone could help me understand this log output.
My etc/hosts file:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 j.gloves
iconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=10b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING,AV>
ether 10:9a:dd:60:de:3d
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: autoselect (none)
status: inactive
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr 70:cd:60:ff:fe:4c:07:7a
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: autoselect <full-duplex>
status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 10:9a:dd:b6:b4:7d
inet6 fe80::129a:ddff:feb6:b47d%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet 192.168.1.161 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
nd6 options=1<PERFORMNUD>
media: autoselect
status: active
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
ether 02:9a:dd:b6:b4:7d
media: autoselect
status: inactive
hbase-site.xml
<configuration>
<property>
<name>hbase.rootdir</name>
<value>file:///Users/j.gloves/trynutch/hbase</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
<value>/Users/j.gloves/trynutch/zookeeper</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>
<value>localhost</value>
</property>
</configuration>

Answer 1

Thank you to everyone who offered help in the comments.
My boss was able to fix the problem. It turned out there was an older version of Hadoop on my machine that was referencing an old IP address. Once it was removed from my path and the machine, HBase worked as expected.