Hi, We are setting up a 6-node cassandra cluster within one data center. 3 in rack1 and the other 3 in rack2. The tokens are assigned alternating between rack 1 and rack 2. There is one seed node in each rack. Below is the ring:
r1-node1 DC1 r1 0 (seed) r2-node1 DC1 r2 28356863910078205288614550619314017621 r1-node2 DC1 r1 56713727820156410577229101238628035242 r2-node2 DC1 r2 85070591730234615865843651857942052863 r1-node3 DC1 r1 113427455640312821154458202477256070484 r2-node3 DC1 r2 141784319550391026443072753096570088105 (seed) for our schema, we are using NetworkTopologyStrategy, setting DC1 replication factor to 2. We loaded the schema via cassandra-cli on r1-node1, and cassandra-cli seemed to have succeeded, but we later discovered that some nodes didn't load the complete keyspace schema definition. On these nodes, show keyspaces from cassandra-cli would show the keyspace, but column families are empty. The system.log file also shows the following stack trace: INFO [FlushWriter:4] 2012-05-22 16:56:13,677 Memtable.java (line 307) Completed flushing /r1-node2/cassandra-data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hc-6-Data.db (1428 bytes) ERROR [MigrationStage:1] 2012-05-22 16:56:13,706 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 134) Exception in thread Thread[MigrationStage:1,5,main] java.lang.RuntimeException: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:50) at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CFDefinition.getKeyId(CFDefinition.java:125) at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CFDefinition.<init>(CFDefinition.java:59) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.updateCfDef(CFMetaData.java:1278) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.keyAlias(CFMetaData.java:221) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchemaNoColumns(CFMetaData.java:1162) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1190) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:291) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:395) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:270) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeRemoteSchema(DefsTable.java:248) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefinitionsUpdateVerbHandler$1.runMayThrow(DefinitionsUpdateVerbHandler.java:48) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) 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) Caused by: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(CoderResult.java:260) at java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder.decode(CharsetDecoder.java:781) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:163) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:120) at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:46) ... 18 more Has anyone seen this before? Thanks. -- Y.