>
> Hi,
> I have downloaded apache-cassandra-1.2.3-bin.tar.gz and un-zipped it on my
> Windows7 machine (I did not find a Windows-specific distributable...). Then,
> I
> tried to start Cassandra as following and got an error:
>
> C:\Marina\Tools\apache-cassandra-1.2.3\bin>cassandra.bat -f
> Starting Cassandra Server
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Couldn't figure out log4j
configuration:
> log4j-server.properties
> at
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.initLog4j(CassandraDaemo
> n.java:81)
> at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.<clinit>
(CassandraDaemon
> .java:57)
> Could not find the main class: org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.
Pr
> ogram will exit.
>
> C:\Marina\Tools\apache-cassandra-1.2.3\bin>
>
> It looks similar to the Cassandra issue that was already fixed:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2383
>
> however I am still getting this error....
> I am an Administrator on my machine, and have access to all files in the
apache-
> cassandra-1.2.3\conf dir, including the log4j ones.
>
> Do I need to configure anything else on Winows ? I did not find any Windows-
> specific installation/setup/startup instructions - if there are such
> documents
> somewhere, please let me know!
>
> Thanks,
> Marina
>
>
In case it helps, I have added echo of CASSANDRA_CLASSPATH:
C:\Marina\Tools\apache-cassandra-1.2.3\bin>cassandra.bat -f
Starting Cassandra Server
CASSANDRA_CLASSPATH="C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\conf";"
C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\antlr-3.2.jar";"C:\Marin
a\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\apache-cassandra-1.2.2.jar";"C:\
Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\apache-cassandra-clientutil
-1.2.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\apache-cass
andra-thrift-1.2.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib
\avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\
avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassand
ra\lib\commons-cli-1.1.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra
\lib\commons-codec-1.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra
\lib\commons-lang-2.6.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\
lib\compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra
\lib\concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\ap
ache-cassandra\lib\guava-13.0.1.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-
cassandra\lib\high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apac
he-cassandra\lib\jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community
\apache-cassandra\lib\jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Co
mmunity\apache-cassandra\lib\jamm-0.2.5.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community
\apache-cassandra\lib\jbcrypt-0.3m.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apac
he-cassandra\lib\jline-1.0.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassa
ndra\lib\json-simple-1.1.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassand
ra\lib\libthrift-0.7.0.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra
\lib\log4j-1.2.16.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\
lz4-1.1.0.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\metrics-
core-2.0.3.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\netty-3
.5.9.Final.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\servlet
-api-2.5-20081211.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\
slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\sl
f4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\
snakeyaml-1.6.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\snap
py-java-1.0.4.1.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\lib\sn
aptree-0.1.jar";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\build\class
es\main";"C:\Marina\Tools\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\build\classes\thri
ft"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Couldn't figure out log4j configuration:
log4j-server.properties
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.initLog4j(CassandraDaemo
n.java:81)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.<clinit>(CassandraDaemon
.java:57)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon. Pr
ogram will exit.
