There was mention of a similar crash on the mailing list. Does this apply to your case ?
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201306.mbox/%3ccdecfcfa.11e95%25agundabatt...@threatmetrix.com%3E -- Mina Naguib AdGear Technologies Inc. http://adgear.com/ On 2013-09-10, at 10:09 AM, "Langston, Jim" <jim.langs...@compuware.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I restarted my cassandra ring this morning, but it is refusing to > start. Everything was fine, but now I get this error in the log: > > …. > INFO 14:05:14,420 Compacting > [SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-20-Data.db'), > > SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-21-Data.db'), > > SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-23-Data.db'), > > SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-22-Data.db')] > INFO 14:05:14,493 Compacted 4 sstables to > [/raid0/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-ic-24,]. 1,086 bytes to 486 > (~44% of original) in 66ms = 0.007023MB/s. 4 total rows, 1 unique. Row > merge counts were {1:0, 2:0, 3:0, 4:1, } > INFO 14:05:14,543 Starting Messaging Service on port 7000 > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:745) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:554) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:451) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:348) > at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.init(CassandraDaemon.java:381) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.load(DaemonLoader.java:212) > Cannot load daemon > > > and cassandra will not start. I get the same error on all the nodes in the > ring. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Jim
