Hi again, some more remarks. I renamed the commitlog directory on the third node so that cassandra cannot see it on startup. Now the node starts fine. The problem seems to have something to do with the commitlogs...
Best Regards Udo Am 27.04.2011 um 13:22 schrieb Subscriber: > Hi, > > I'm using Cassandra 0.7.4 on a three node cluster. The cluster was setup > yesterday as a fresh installation (no upgrade). > The cluster is installed beside a hadoop cluster (I want to discover how > cassandra works together with hadoop's map/reduce feature). > > After loading some test data into the cassandra cluster (some text-files for > a first wordcount m/r example ;-) I killed all nodes and restarted the > cluster. > Two nodes are starting fine but the third node doesn't start and throws a > NullPointerException: > > INFO 12:44:42,557 Finished reading > /home/.../cassandra/work/commitlog/CommitLog-1303828029742.log > ERROR 12:44:42,558 Exception encountered during startup. > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.createReplicationStrategy(Table.java:275) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:221) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:110) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:273) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:156) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:173) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:314) > at > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:79) > Exception encountered during startup. > > This looks pretty much the same as issue > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1889 which is in resolution > "cannot reproduce". > > What can I do to make the node starting again? > > Thanks in advance and best regards > Udo
