Thank you Aaron for pointing me to the logs. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:23 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
> 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 >>> >> >> > >