HBase standalone failed to connect (fail to create table)
Looks like you are missing hbase.zookeeper.quorum in your configuration.Please check this HBase guide chapter, it may help: http://hbase.apache.org/book/zookeeper.html
Also please check zookeeper is started on right port and (what happens more often) correct IP interfaces.
I'm not sure if you're on Mac, but I had this problem as well. It turns out that it was because a .DS_STORE file was in a folder of -ROOT- region server and causing a connect exception. Very strange!
Something might be related to your configuration. At first, I download HBase tar(http://hbase.apache.org/book/quickstart.html) to run HBase. I didn't follow the link to do any configuration, just download, start HBase, run "HBase shell". But when creating a table, it gave me error like you mentioned. And then, I search HBase installation on Mac, since I use Mac. I adopt to use "brew install hbase" to install HBase(http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2013/02/01/getting-starting-with-hbase-and-pig.html). After finished installation, I re-create the table. Success.
So re-consider your error, it must be linked with your JAVA_HOME or other configurations on HBase. Finding the answer from this way might help you.