I'm running a test cluster for development and evaluation of Cassandra. In order to use the latest build of Hector (the 0.7.0 branch) I've need to move from 0.6.5 first to 0.7.0-beta1 of Cassandra and then to the latest nightly build (actually 2010-09-20_14-20-20). In order to move over I've followed the following procedure:
1: get 0.7.0 running on all nodes, use schematool to update schema 2: confirm with cassandra-cli that the schema looks OK 3: Take down all nodes 4: on one node install nightly build 5:use config-converter to create config from 0.6.5 to nightly config 6: Change RackUnawareStrategy to SimpleStrategy in cassandra.yaml 7: start Cassandra However I am still getting RackUnawareStrategy exceptions (output below). Any ideas on the proper procedure ? Ta Andy Using adaptive heap size: 1002M INFO 09:12:15,962 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled. INFO 09:12:16,200 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be standard, indexAccessMode is standard INFO 09:12:16,368 Sampling index for /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/Schema-e-2-<> INFO 09:12:16,393 Sampling index for /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/Schema-e-1-<> INFO 09:12:16,425 Sampling index for /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/Migrations-e-2-<> INFO 09:12:16,427 Sampling index for /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/Migrations-e-1-<> INFO 09:12:16,436 Sampling index for /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-e-9-<> INFO 09:12:16,513 Loading schema version 6821232f-c248-11df-bad6-869ef8d6f292 ERROR 09:12:16,866 Exception encountered during startup. java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create ReplicationStrategy of type org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.inflate(KSMetaData.java:103) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromStorage(DefsTable.java:106) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:441) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:109) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:199) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:133) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.inflate(KSMetaData.java:99) ... 6 more Exception encountered during startup. java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not create ReplicationStrategy of type org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.inflate(KSMetaData.java:103) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromStorage(DefsTable.java:106) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:441) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:109) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:199) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:133) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.cassandra.locator.RackUnawareStrategy at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.inflate(KSMetaData.java:99) ... 6 more The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.