Thanks Mina, That was it exactly …
Jim From: Mina Naguib <mina.nag...@adgear.com<mailto:mina.nag...@adgear.com>> Reply-To: <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:16:17 -0400 To: <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: cassandra error on restart 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<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201306.mbox/<cdecfcfa.11e95%agundabatt...@threatmetrix.com>> -- Mina Naguib AdGear Technologies Inc. http://adgear.com/ On 2013-09-10, at 10:09 AM, "Langston, Jim" <jim.langs...@compuware.com<mailto: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
