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Recently we met the same problem in one of our production env (HBase-1.3.1).
I think we missed this,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21292?focusedCommentId=16656135&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16656135