The logs don't seem to be talking about memory issues -- it can't find the log4j settings file in the correct location under where the CASSANDRA_HOME environment variable points to.
I have packaged cassandra myself so I'm not entirely familiar with the pre-packaged installations. Try doing the following (assuming a debian system because you mentioned ubuntu): dpkg -l | grep cassandra # then find the package you want to look into dpkg -L cassandra_package | grep log4j One of them should have the log4j configuration in it, I presume? Faraaz On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:17:11AM -0700, Arthur Zubarev wrote: > > > Hello All: > > I had Cassandra 1.2.4 running up until yesterday, then after I took an Ubuntu > update (may be related or may not), I suddenly wasn't able to connect any > more. > > The error was related to lack of memory and suggested a modification to its > config, I kept increasing the memory (I have 8 Gb), but Cassandra would not > start. > I read a post that it might be OpenJava related and I added Oracle Java > 1.7.0_21, made it default, but the issue persisted. > > I have then decided to remove the Cassandra community package and get the > DataStax one. Alas, it failed to install citing unmet dependency 1.2.4 C* > package. I could not figure how I get it since the only valid option was > deb12. > > I thus opted to re-get the one from Apache, made it installed no problem, but > to my dismay C* would NOT start! > > I can see the error when running sudo cassandra -f is > > 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 > (CassandraDaemon.java:82) > at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.<clinit> > (CassandraDaemon.java:58) > > The posts I found tell me to modify the log4j-server.properties file. > But it is not present on my machine, in fact the directory > /etc/cassandra is empty. > > I am out of ideas. What is wrong? > > Regards, > > Arthur
