HBase - hbase:metadata holds info about non existing RegionServer ID - "Master startup cannot progress, in holding-pattern until region onlined."

I cannot start Hbase Master because I am getting this error:

[Thread-18] master.HMaster: hbase:meta,,1.1588230740 
    is NOT online; state={1588230740 state=OPEN, ts=1569328636085, server=regionserver17,16020,1566375930434}; 
    ServerCrashProcedures=true. 
    Master startup cannot progress, in holding-pattern until region onlined.

Hbase Master is active and green but actually it is not started properly since it generates those WARNings in logs and actually I cannot even do the list in Hbase shell because then I get error: ERROR: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.PleaseHoldException: Master is initializing

hbase:meta is referencing some non existing ID 1566375930434 which does not exist in WALs nor in zookeeper-client /hbase-unsecure/rs list.

I tried with these commands:

$ sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -rm -r /apps/hbase/data/WALs/

$ zookeeper-client rmr /hbase-unsecure/rs

I also tried and this:

rm -f /var/lib/ambari-metrics-collector/hbase-tmp/zookeeper/zookeeper_0/version-2/*

and restarted the Hbase but still always having the same issue. If anyone can give me additional advice what to try. Thanks

Solution

We resolved this issue. Solution is to

stop Hbase
log to zookeeper-client as root
execute command rmr /hbase-unsecure/meta-region-server
start Hbase