On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:19 AM, John Pyeatt <john.pye...@singlewire.com>wrote:
> Then my issue must be the 0.000001% because > > 1) I'm running the repair as root. > Huh? Repair doesn't care what user your shell is. It is a process built into cassandra and has the permissions that cassandra does? > 2) The directory exists and the permissions are appropriate. root:root 755 > Why are you running Cassandra as root? > 3) The three times it occurred during the repair it always complained > about backups directories. But there are dozens other backups directories > that were created during the repair that caused no exceptions. > Cassandra doesn't have a lot of chances to mess up while creating directories. This appears to be one of them. > The biggest issue with this is that is shuts down gossip. > That sounds like rather a serious issue, and hints towards a potential common cause : too many open files? To rule out other potential causes of issue : - what o/s? - what JVM? - how have you installed cassandra? - what version of cassandra? =Rob
