whoops! sorry about that! trying again.. [default@unknown] connect beta.jokefire.com/9160; Connected to: "Test Cluster" on beta.jokefire.com/9160
[default@unknown] use system; Authenticated to keyspace: system [default@system] set LocationInfo[utf8('L')][utf8('Cluster Name')]=utf8('Jokefire Cluster' ); Value inserted. Elapsed time: 38 msec(s). [default@system] exit; [root@beta:~] #nodetool -h beta.jokefire.com flush [root@beta:~] #grep cluster_name /etc/alternatives/cassandrahome/conf/cassandra.yaml cluster_name: 'Jokefire Cluster' And I still get the same result: ERROR 12:02:24,023 Fatal exception during initialization org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Saved cluster name Test Cluster != configured name Jokefire Cluster at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemTable.checkHealth(SystemTable.java:299) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:169) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:356) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:107) And just making sure this is clear, DNS appears to be fine: [root@beta:~] #grep beta /etc/hosts 198.101.216.47 beta.jokefire.com beta [root@beta:~] #host beta.jokefire.com beta.jokefire.com has address 198.101.216.47 thanks I appreciate the advice you've been giving me... hope I can get this to work! On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Abhijit Chanda <abhijit.chan...@gmail.com>wrote: > If you have used the above commands then i guess problem lies in this step. > > [default@system] set LocationInfo[utf8('L')][utf8('*Test > Cluster*')]=utf8('Jokefire > Cluster'); > > It should be like this: set LocationInfo[utf8('L')][utf8('Cluster > Name')]=utf8('Jokefire Cluster'); > > > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B