Thanks for the detailed help. I'll follow up. - Bob Futrelle
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Andras Szerdahelyi < andras.szerdahe...@ignitionone.com> wrote: > > Its not clear to me how you are starting the daemon. You mention Eclipse > - do you have Cassandra embedded in an Eclipse project? cassandra.yaml > might not be read correctly. Make sure its on the class path, i have it in > src/main/resources and it gets picked up from there just fine ( although i > only ever use it in my unit tests ) > > CassandraDaemon cassandra = new CassandraDaemon(); > cassandra.init(null); > cassandra.start(); > > It might also be worthwhile to inspect log output from > org.apache.cassandra. Put this in your log4j.properties > > log4j.logger.org.apache.cassandra = FINEST, cassandra > # Cassandra log > log4j.appender.cassandra = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender > log4j.appender.cassandra.File = target/log/cassandra.log > log4j.appender.cassandra.MaxFileSize = 10MB > log4j.appender.cassandra.MaxBackupIndex = 5 > log4j.appender.cassandra.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.cassandra.layout.ConversionPattern = %d %p %c - %m%n > > > Andras Szerdahelyi* > *Solutions Architect, IgnitionOne | 1831 Diegem E.Mommaertslaan 20A > M: +32 493 05 50 88 | Skype: sandrew84 > > > > > > On 25 Dec 2012, at 22:56, Bob Futrelle <bob.futre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been using cqlsh (and --cql3) successfully for a few weeks. > But yesterday it stopped working, with the all too familiar, > > "Connection error: Could not connect to localhost:9160" > > Still got the same message, 9160, after I changed the rpc_port in the > yaml file to 9161 or 9159. > > I recently installed the Maven plugin in Eclipse, so I thought that > might be the problem. (My prototyping/research code is so simple that I've > used Eclipse's builds with no problems for years. Maven would be overkill.) > > I reread the various Cassandra docs, reinstalled Cassandra > (apache-cassandra-1.1.7) recreated the var/lib directories, rebooted my > machine, restarted Eclipse, that's about all I could think of. Eclipse was > going to be the next stage for me after various cqlsh experiments, so it > shouldn't have any effect on the CLI. I'm no expert on ports and the > like. I don't do web servers/clients. My expertise is in the Java/Swing > systems I build for NLP research. Now that I'm retired and working from > home, I can't just walk down the hall and talk with our systems experts. > > - Bob Futrelle > > > >
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