diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 37c67844397..7559c30fcca 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -763,6 +763,8 @@ Release 0.90.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3278  AssertionError in LoadBalancer
    HBASE-3318  Split rollback leaves parent with writesEnabled=false
    HBASE-3334  Refresh our hadoop jar because of HDFS-1520
+   HBASE-3347  Can't truncate/disable table that has rows in .META. that have empty
+               info:regioninfo column
 
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
index 2c139bd0458..80b00a73803 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
@@ -495,9 +495,10 @@ public class HConnectionManager {
           this.tableName = tableName;
         }
         public boolean processRow(Result rowResult) throws IOException {
-          HRegionInfo info = Writables.getHRegionInfo(
+          HRegionInfo info = Writables.getHRegionInfoOrNull(
               rowResult.getValue(HConstants.CATALOG_FAMILY,
                   HConstants.REGIONINFO_QUALIFIER));
+          if (info == null) return true;
           HTableDescriptor desc = info.getTableDesc();
           if (Bytes.compareTo(desc.getName(), tableName) == 0) {
             result = desc;