HBase Error Upon Docker Container Restart: Timedout waiting for namespace table to be assigned and enabled

[hilljairus]

Getting a strange error when attempting to restart HBase Pseudodistributed mode. The sequence of events is as follows:

1. Configure brand new HBase environment pointing to HDFS.
2. docker compose up -> Environment starts with no issues. I can create tables using hbase shell
3. docker compose down -> container shutdown sequence is hbase-region-1, hbase-master, zoo-1, data-nodes, namenode
4. docker compose up -> HBase master times out after 5 mins with error: Timedout 300000ms waiting for namespace table to be assigned and enabled: tableName=hbase:namespace, state=ENABLED
5. If I remove the /hbase directory from HDFS and restart the environment it will come back up and will be available until I restart the Docker environment again.