Hi Robert, In this case would it be possible to do the following to replace a seed node?
nodetool disablethrift nodetool disablegossip nodetool drain stop Cassandra deep copy /var/lib/cassandra/* on old seed node to new seed node start Cassandra on new seed node Regards, Anthony On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Christopher J. Bottaro < > cjbott...@academicworks.com> wrote: > >> One thing that I didn't mention, and I think may be the culprit after >> doing a lot or mailing list reading, is that when we brought the 4 new >> nodes into the cluster, they had themselves listed in the seeds list. I >> read yesterday that if a node has itself in the seeds list, then it won't >> bootstrap properly. >> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5836 > > =Rob >