I have seen this happen as well. Deleting commit logs helps to Cassandra start but of course if you are very unlucky you might lose some data.
Hannu > On 19 May 2017, at 18.13, Haris Altaf <m.haris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > I am using Cassandra 3.10 for my project and whenever my local windows > system, which is my development environment, crashes then cassandra server is > unable to start. I have to delete commitlog directory after every system > crash. This is actually annoying and what's the purpose of commitlog if it > itself gets crashed. I have uploaded the entire dump of Cassandra Server > (along with logs, commitlogs, data, configs etc) at the link below. Kindly > share its solution. I believe it needs to be fixed. > > Crashed Cassandra 3.10 Server Link: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxE52j6oo6cEYXJvdGhBNHNQd0E > > regards, > Haris > -- > regards, > Haris
