Whats does your cassandra-topology.properties file look like ? Cheers
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 14 May 2011, at 11:48, Anurag Gujral wrote: > Hi All, > I have built a cassandra cluster which is using property snitch > file to specify my network topology to cassandra.The keyspace I have use > network topology strategy. > > When I tried to add new node to this cluster,I get the following error: > RROR [main] 2011-05-13 23:45:44,152 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 333) > Exception encountered during startup. > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.cassandra.locator.PropertyFileSnitch.getDatacenter(PropertyFileSnitch.java:96) > at > org.apache.cassandra.locator.NetworkTopologyStrategy.calculateNaturalEndpoints(NetworkTopologyStrategy.java:87) > at > org.apache.cassandra.locator.AbstractReplicationStrategy.getAddressRanges(AbstractReplicationStrategy.java:196) > at > org.apache.cassandra.locator.AbstractReplicationStrategy.getPendingAddressRanges(AbstractReplicationStrategy.java:230) > at > org.apache.cassandra.dht.BootStrapper.getRangesWithSources(BootStrapper.java:195) > at > org.apache.cassandra.dht.BootStrapper.bootstrap(BootStrapper.java:83) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.bootstrap(StorageService.java:525) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:453) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:403) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:194) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:316) > at > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:79) > > > Please Advise. > > > Thanks > Anurag >