All of the times I have had similar issues the problem has always been misconfigured iptables. You said it was running fine on 0.6.8 though? On the same box or a different box?
On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hi there, > > I just downloaded cassandra 0.7rc1. I started it using bin/cassandra without > making any configuration changes. > > I then tried to connect using the CLI with command like this: > > f...@ubuntu:~/Applications/apache-cassandra-0.7.0-rc1$ bin/cassandra-cli > Welcome to cassandra CLI. > > Type 'help' or '?' for help. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit. > [defa...@unknown] connect localhost/9160; > Exception connecting to localhost/9160. Reason: Connection refused. > > Why am I getting connection refused? I didn't experience this with cassandra > 0.6.8. > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Kind regards, > Joshua. > > -- > http://twitter.com/jpartogi