This should be fixed in 0.8.5 (more precisely by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3039)
-- Sylvain On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Fredrik Stigbäck <fredrik.l.stigb...@sitevision.se> wrote: > 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 > >