After a reboot, cassandra spits out many lines on startup but then appears to stall.
Worse, trying to run cassandra a second time stops immediately because of a port problem: apache-cassandra-0.7.3: sudo ./bin/cassandra -f -p pidfile Password: Error: Exception thrown by the agent : java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 8080; nested exception is: java.net.BindException: Address already in use I have seen some discussions of the problem but have not found a solution. ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: I neve explicitly installed Thrift. Should I? How do I know that cassandra.in.sh is being used? Assuming it is, can I change the port in that file? If so, how? Do any of these variables need to be set? CASSANDRA_HOME CASSANDRA_CONF and is this necessary? for jar in $CASSANDRA_HOME/lib/*.jar; do CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$jar done Java: I noticed that $JAVA_HOME = /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home but on the command line I get: apache-cassandra-0.7.3: java -version java version "1.6.0_24" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07-334-10M3326) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.1-b02-334, mixed mode) Should probably change $JAVA_HOME to point to 1.6 I get the digest. Feel free to cc me at bob.futre...@gmail.com - Bob Northeastern U. College of Computer and Information Science