We had some problems with a node, so we decided to rebootstrap it. My IT guy screwed up, and when he added -Dcassandra.replace_address to cassandra-env.sh, he forgot the closing quote. The node bootstrapped, and then refused to join the cluster. We shut it down, and then noticed that nodetool status no longer showed that node, and the “Owns” column had increased from ~10% per node to ~11% (we originally had 10 nodes). I don’t know why Cassandra decided to automatically remove the node from the cluster, but it did. We figured it would be best to make sure the node was completely forgotten, and then add it back into the cluster as a new node. Problem is, it won’t completely go away.
nodetool status doesn’t list it, but its still in system.peers, and OpsCenter still shows it. When I run nodetool removenode, it says that it can’t find the node. How do I completely get rid of it? Thanks in advance Robert
