Some more info, running the cluster with debug enabled shows this error: DEBUG 14:23:05,749 Thrift transport error occurred during processing of message. org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe at org.apache.thrift.transport.TIOStreamTransport.write(TIOStreamTransport.java:147) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.flush(TFramedTransport.java:157) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$get_range_slices.process(Cassandra.java:3221) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:2889) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:187) 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) Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method) at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92) at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136) at org.apache.thrift.transport.TIOStreamTransport.write(TIOStreamTransport.java:145) ... 7 more
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