Try the cassandra-with-fixes.bat<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12442349/cassandra-with-fixes.bat> file attached to the issue. I had the same issue an that bat file got cassandra to start. It still throws another error complaining about the log4j.properties.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:59 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any insights? > > Much appreciated! > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:13 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was just reading that thanks. >> >> What does he mean when he says: >> >> "This appears to be related to data storage paths I set, because if I >> switch the paths back to the default UNIX paths. Everything runs fine" >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-948 >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:03 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Ok so I found the config section: >>> > >>> <CommitLogDirectory>E:\java\cassandra\apache-cassandra-0.6.1-bin\apache-cassandra-0.6.1\commitlog</CommitLogDirectory> >>> > <DataFileDirectories> >>> > >>> > >>> >>> <DataFileDirectory>E:\java\cassandra\apache-cassandra-0.6.1-bin\apache-cassandra-0.6.1\data</DataFileDirectory> >>> > </DataFileDirectories> >>> > >>> > Now when I run: >>> > bin/cassandra >>> > I get: >>> > Starting cassandra server >>> > listening for transport dt_socket at address:8888 >>> > exception in thread main java.lang.noclassDefFoundError: >>> > org/apache/cassthreft/cassandraDaemon >>> > could not find the main class: >>> > org.apache.cassandra.threif.cassandraDaemon... >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:53 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> So I uncompressed the .tar, in the readme it says: >>> >> * tar -zxvf cassandra-$VERSION.tgz >>> >> * cd cassandra-$VERSION >>> >> * sudo mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra >>> >> * sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/log/cassandra >>> >> * sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra >>> >> * sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/lib/cassandra >>> >> >>> >> My cassandra is at: >>> >> c:\java\cassandra\apache-cassandra-0.6.1/ >>> >> So I have to create 2 folders log and lib? >>> >> Is there a setting in a config file that I edit? >>> > >>> >> >> >