Hi and thanks for your response. The puzzling thing is that yes I am using the murmur partition, yet I am still getting the error I just told you guys about:
[root@beta:/etc/alternatives/cassandrahome] #grep -i partition conf/cassandra.yaml | grep -v '#' partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner Thanks Tim On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Colin <colpcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > You may have used the old random partitioner token generator. Use the > murmur partitioner token generator instead. > > -- > Colin > 320-221-9531 > > > On May 17, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B