I've seen removenode hang indefinitely also (per CASSANDRA-6542).
Generally speaking, if a node is in good health and you want to take it out
of the cluster for whatever reason (including the one you mentioned),
nodetool decommission is a better choice. Removenode is for when a node is
unrecoverab
Hi,
we have had an issue with one of our nodes today:
1. Due to a wrong setup the starting node failed to properly bootstrap.
It was shown as UN in the cluster however did not contain any data and
we shut it down to fix our configuration issue.
2. We figured we need to remove the node from t
