Hello, I am having the following problem with Cassandra. When I first start Cassandra, it works fine and I insert some data, but when I kill cassandra and then start it again, it starts throwing NullPointerException (into log4j). When I restart Cassandra once more, it doesn't throw the exception (usually), but when I query for previously inserted data, it is gone.
I am using out-of-the box Cassandra 0.5.1 on a single node (Java 6 / OS X 10.5.8). My schema is as follows: ------------------------------------------------ <Keyspace Name="zclosure"> <KeysCachedFraction>0.01</KeysCachedFraction> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="UTF8Type" Name="url-item"/> <ColumnFamily CompareWith="UTF8Type" Name="url-item-headers"/> </Keyspace> ------------------------------------------------ and the exception log is below. Any ideas? Thank You, Oleg Mürk ----------------------------------------------- ....... INFO - Log replay complete INFO - Saved Token found: 93658780503831948900522797887764765383 INFO - Starting up server gossip DEBUG - Starting to listen on localhost/127.0.0.1 DEBUG - Binding thrift service to localhost/127.0.0.1:9160 INFO - Cassandra starting up... DEBUG - Disseminating load info ... DEBUG - get_count DEBUG - get_slice DEBUG - strongread reading data for SliceFromReadCommand(table='zclosure', key='http://paulgraham.com/kate.html', column_parent='QueryPath(columnFamilyName='url-item', superColumnName='null', col umnName='null')', start='', finish='', reversed=false, count=2147483647) from 2...@localhost/127.0.0.1 ERROR - Error in ThreadPoolExecutor java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.getComparator(DatabaseDescriptor.java:914) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader.getColumnComparator(SSTableReader.java:414) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SSTableSliceIterator.<init>(SSTableSliceIterator.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(SliceQueryFilter.java:63) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamilyInternal(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1245) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1203) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1172) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.getRow(Table.java:415) at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceFromReadCommand.getRow(SliceFromReadCommand.java:59) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadVerbHandler.doVerb(ReadVerbHandler.java:79) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:38) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637) ERROR - Fatal exception in thread Thread[ROW-READ-STAGE:1,5,main] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.getComparator(DatabaseDescriptor.java:914) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader.getColumnComparator(SSTableReader.java:414) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SSTableSliceIterator.<init>(SSTableSliceIterator.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(SliceQueryFilter.java:63) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamilyInternal(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1245) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1203) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1172) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.getRow(Table.java:415) at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceFromReadCommand.getRow(SliceFromReadCommand.java:59) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ReadVerbHandler.doVerb(ReadVerbHandler.java:79) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:38) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)