Hi Abhijit, Thanks and actually I did restart cassandra at the end. I suspect I will have to delete the files in my system keyspace folder. I'm not at liberty to do that at the moment, but I will give that shot as soon as I'm able.
Thank you again Tim On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Abhijit Chanda <abhijit.chan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey Tim, > > Can you repeat these steps as given below? I guess now you are missing > step no 6. > > Start the Cassandra-cli connected to your node. > Run the following: > > 1. use system; > 2. set LocationInfo[utf8('L')][utf8('ClusterName')]=utf8('Brisk > Cluster'); > 3. exit; > 4. Run nodetool flush on this node. > 5. Update the cassandra.yaml file for the cluster_name > 6. Restart the node. > > Check whether everything is fine or not. If not then delete the files in > your system keyspace folder except files like Schema*.*. Every time you > start cassandra node, it will compare the value between the one in system > keyspace and the one in you configuration file, if they're not equal, > you'll get an error. And please don't forget to keep the backup before > deletion if anything goes wrong. > > Hope this will help you > > Abhijit > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B