Trying to do a nodetool cleanup but gets a NullPointerException. I've done some debugging and found out that the property org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.PrecompactedRow.compactedCf is initilaized to null since ColumnFamilyStore.removeDeleted(ColumnFamily, int) returns null which I interpret as the row is marked for delete and has no columns. This will cause org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnIndexer.serializeInternal to get a IIterableColumns == null. Any ideas? Corrupted SStable or a bug or something else? Running Cassandra 0.8.4 on a Windows 7 but have seen the same behaviour on Linux.
09:09:50 ERROR [AbstractCassandraDaemon] [] Fatal exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:8,1,main] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnIndexer.serializeInternal(ColumnIndexer.java:60) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnIndexer.serialize(ColumnIndexer.java:50) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.PrecompactedRow.write(PrecompactedRow.java:110) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.append(SSTableWriter.java:132) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager.doCleanupCompaction(CompactionManager.java:866) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager.access$500(CompactionManager.java:65) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$2.call(CompactionManager.java:204) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$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:662) /Regards Fredrik