I encountered the same problem after installing Hbase and took the following steps.
In your terminal, go to Hbase-> bin and run start-hbase.sh, as shown below.
user @client: / usr / local / hbase / bin $ start-hbase.sh
Then enter jps in your terminal. Now HMaster will be active.
user @client: / usr / local / hbase / bin $ jps
After that, I could create a table.
Naveen
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