title: Starting Hbase : cygpath: can't convert empty path
body: <p>I hope somebody can help me with this problemoo:</p>
  
  <p>Starting hbase, I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ ./start-hbase.sh
  cygpath: can't convert empty path
  cygpath: can't convert empty path
  soporte@localhost's password:
  localhost: starting zookeeper, logging to /usr/local/hbase-0.90.4/bin/../logs/hbase-CNEOSYLAP-zookeeper-CNEOSYLAP.out
  localhost: cygpath: can't convert empty path
  starting master, logging to /usr/local/hbase-0.90.4/bin/../logs/hbase-CNEOSYLAP-master-CNEOSYLAP.out
  cygpath: can't convert empty path
  soporte@localhost's password:
  localhost: starting regionserver, logging to /usr/local/hbase-0.90.4/bin/../logs/hbase-CNEOSYLAP-regionserver-CNEOSYLAP.out
  localhost: cygpath: can't convert empty path
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This error only happens with hbase-0.90.4 and hbase-0.90.6 but is not happening with hbase-0.94.9. I am using Windows 7 x64 and CygWin setup 2.774.</p>
  
  <p>Note 1 : I was following instructions from <a href="http://hbase.apache.org/cygwin.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Installing HBase on Windows</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10290223/hbase-java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-classpath-error">here</a>
  Note 2 : It is important to me setting up hbase-0.90.X because later i will use Nutch 2.2.1</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>