>
> Hello all,
>
> We installed Cassandra on our development server , which is a fresh Ubuntu
> server running only Cassandra.
> We followed all the instructions on this
> link<http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/install/install_package> and
> when we want to start the server as a service by issuing either of the
> command.
>
> service cassandra start
> /etc/init.d/cassandra start
>
> it waits for a few seconds, then returns the prompt.
> But the service never starts.
> When we try to start with cassandra -f , it works fine.
>
> What could be the issue.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> many thanks
>
