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What is one to when his HBase application hangs, regardless of how he connects to the ZooKeeper? - Banging your head on the keyboard helps.

The possible reasons for this are

• ZooKeeper/HBase configuration problems (check them out independently with 'hbase shell' and zkCli.sh)
• HADOOP_CLASSPATH not configured correctly
• Running tests from maven may also give you problem.

When your 'hadoop classpath' is a few pages long, and you run outside of maven, using this classpath, it will work.