Thanks Carlos for pointing that out. The clock on one of the nodes was not in sync and fixing that solved the issue.
From: Jan <cne...@yahoo.com<mailto:cne...@yahoo.com>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>>, Jan <cne...@yahoo.com<mailto:cne...@yahoo.com>> Date: Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" <user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Unable to create a keyspace Saurabh; a) How exactly are the three nodes hosted. b) Can you take down node 2 and create the keyspace from node 1 c) Can you take down node 1 and create the keyspace from node2 d) Do the nodes see each other with 'nodetool status' cheers Jan/ C* Architect On Saturday, January 31, 2015 5:40 AM, Carlos Rolo <r...@pythian.com<mailto:r...@pythian.com>> wrote: Something that can cause weird behavior is the machine clocks not being properly synced. I didn't read the thread in full detail, so disregard this if it is not the case. --