I just downloaded the 0.7 RC1 and got an error starting cassandra. I have 0.6.x working on my system, so I used the conversion tool to convert my storage-conf to cassandra.yaml.
it looks like the conversion tool didn't add entries for commitlog and saved_caches directory in the configuration file. I added it manually and got past that. The server seems to start, but I get the following error. ERROR 16:45:00,790 Fatal exception in thread Thread[FlushWriter:1,5,main] java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: rename failed of E:\apache-cassandra-0.7.0-rc1\data\system\LocationInfo-e-1-Index.db at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.rename(SSTableWriter.java:214) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:184) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.closeAndOpenReader(SSTableWriter.java:167) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.writeSortedContents(Memtable.java:161) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable.access$000(Memtable.java:49) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable$1.runMayThrow(Memtable.java:174) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.io.IOException: rename failed of E:\apache-cassandra-0.7.0-rc1\data\system\LocationInfo-e-1-Index.db at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.renameWithConfirm(FBUtilities.java:359) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.rename(SSTableWriter.java:210) ... 12 more Is this error benign or is it due to a missing configuration in cassandra.yaml? thanks