Hey all, I've set my initial_token in cassandra 2.0.7 using a python script I found at the datastax wiki.
I've set the value like this: initial_token: 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 And cassandra crashes when I try to start it: [root@beta:/etc/alternatives/cassandrahome] #./bin/cassandra -f INFO 18:14:38,511 Logging initialized INFO 18:14:38,560 Loading settings from file:/usr/local/apache-cassandra-2.0.7/conf/cassandra.yaml INFO 18:14:39,151 Data files directories: [/var/lib/cassandra/data] INFO 18:14:39,152 Commit log directory: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog INFO 18:14:39,153 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode is mmap INFO 18:14:39,153 disk_failure_policy is stop INFO 18:14:39,153 commit_failure_policy is stop INFO 18:14:39,161 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 251MB INFO 18:14:39,362 Not using multi-threaded compaction ERROR 18:14:39,365 Fatal configuration error org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: For input string: "85070591730234615865843651857942052864" at org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner$1.validate(Murmur3Partitioner.java:178) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.applyConfig(DatabaseDescriptor.java:440) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:111) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:153) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:471) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:560) For input string: "85070591730234615865843651857942052864" Fatal configuration error; unable to start. See log for stacktrace. I really need to get replication going between 2 nodes. Can someone clue me into why this may be crashing? Thanks! Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B