I'm upgrading an 0.6 cluster to 0.7 in a testing environment. In cleaning up one of the nodes I get the exception below. Googling around seems to reveal people having trouble with it caused by too-small heap sizes but that doesn't look to be what's going on here. Am I missing something obvious?
$ time ./cassandra-0.7/bin/nodetool -h cassa7test01 cleanup Error occured while cleaning up keyspace keyspace java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.io.IOException: Keys must be written in ascending order. at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager.performCleanup(CompactionManager.java:180) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.forceCleanup(ColumnFamilyStore.java:909) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.forceTableCleanup(StorageService.java:1127) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:111) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(StandardMBeanIntrospector.java:45) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanIntrospector.invokeM(MBeanIntrospector.java:226) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.PerInterface.invoke(PerInterface.java:138) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanSupport.invoke(MBeanSupport.java:251) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:857) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:795) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1449) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$200(RMIConnectionImpl.java:90) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1284) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1382) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:807) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:322) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:177) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:173) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:553) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:808) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:667) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Keys must be written in ascending order. at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.beforeAppend(SSTableWriter.java:107) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.append(SSTableWriter.java:124) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager.doCleanupCompaction(CompactionManager.java:411) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager.access$400(CompactionManager.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CompactionManager$2.call(CompactionManager.java:171) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) ... 3 more real 14m27.895s user 0m0.670s sys 0m0.200s