Thanks a lot Emilio! I appreciate your effort!
I quickly tested this and the import is working now. One
minor remark is that some error messages are printed on the
command line:
$ geomesa ingest -u root -p password \
> -c myNamespace.countries -f shapeFile
TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.shp
May 17, 2017 9:45:11 PM
org.geotools.data.shapefile.files.ShpFiles logCurrentLockers
SEVERE: The following locker still has a lock: read on
file:/home/dsteiner/Downloads/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.shp
by org.geotools.data.shapefile.shp.ShapefileReader
May 17, 2017 9:45:11 PM
org.geotools.data.shapefile.files.ShpFiles logCurrentLockers
SEVERE: The following locker still has a lock: read on
file:/home/dsteiner/Downloads/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.shx
by org.geotools.data.shapefile.shp.IndexFile
May 17, 2017 9:45:11 PM
org.geotools.data.shapefile.files.ShpFiles logCurrentLockers
SEVERE: The following locker still has a lock: read on
file:/home/dsteiner/Downloads/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.dbf
by org.geotools.data.shapefile.dbf.DbaseFileReader