Hi Faraaz,
yes, this time C* doesn't start due to inability to log I assume.
I get ii cassandra 1.2.5 out of the 1st statement, the 2nd gave
/usr/share/doc/cassandra/licenses/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.txt
/usr/share/doc/cassandra/licenses/log4j-1.2.16.txt.gz
/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar
/etc/cassandra/log4j-tools.properties
/etc/cassandra/log4j-server.properties
There are no files in /etc/cassandra
Regards,
Arthur
---- Original Message ----
From: Faraaz Sareshwala <fsareshw...@quantcast.com>
To: user <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Sent: Mon, May 20, 2013 3:09 pm
Subject: Re: Unable to start Cassandra
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
