Re: Fatal startup error -- Instance already exists

2011-09-03 Thread Eric Czech
I overwrote all sstable and system files from a snapshot that I took right before the upgrade and it worked this time. Everything is back to normal and thanks again. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Eric Czech wrote: > I shutdown the cassandra java process, deleted the Schema and Migration > ta

Re: Fatal startup error -- Instance already exists

2011-09-03 Thread Eric Czech
I shutdown the cassandra java process, deleted the Schema and Migration tables, and then restarted the node but am now getting a "Could not reach schema agreement" error. After running "describe cluster" from a working node, I can see that all other nodes have a consistent schema and it's only the

Re: Fatal startup error -- Instance already exists

2011-09-03 Thread Jonathan Ellis
That means somehow there is more than one copy of that CF declared in the schema on that node. Delete the schema and let it pull it from another node, as in wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#schema_disagreement. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Eric Czech wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded 10 nodes