Hello Marina, I've downloaded a fresh copy of v1.2.3 and it's running fine on my Windows 7 64 bit PC. I am using jdk 1.6.0 u29 64 bit. I have local admin permissions to my PC.
On 22 March 2013 15:36, Marina <ppi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > -- Thanks Jabbar Azam
