You can check the /var/log/cassandra/output.log (stdout / err from the process) and /var/log/cassandra/system.log to diagnose start problems.
A ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/09/2011, at 12:34 PM, Ramesh S wrote: > On IRC channel, I was told that 'service' clears the environment variables. > Just in case , some one might be having the same problem. > > Use - cassandra start instead of service cassandra start. > > ** Please correct me if this is incorrect or if this is because server is > wrongly configured. > > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Ramesh S <investt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Konstantin. > > I checked the services, but it doesn't show up for some reason. Even trying > to connect locally or remotely using a CLI client, returned > Exception connecting to xx.xx.xx.xx/9160. Reason: Connection refused. > But I tried sudo cassandra start and it worked like a charm. > I am surprised why omitting the 'service' did the job. > It is development server, but I am little concerned about the production > server. > > regards > Ramesh > > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Konstantin Naryshkin <konstant...@a-bb.net> > wrote: > Yes, they start Cassandra as a daemon in the background. It is running. You > can connect to it from the CLI or any other client. You can see what it is > doing by reading the logs. cassandra -f starts Cassandra in the foreground, > that is why it does not return a prompt when the server starts. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ramesh S" <investt...@gmail.com> > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:03:12 PM > Subject: unable to start as a service on Ubuntu server > > > > > 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 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 > >
