I am using Cassandra 3.0.9 version on a 12 node cluster. I have multiple node down after a restart. The cassandra VM is not coming up with an asset error as below. On running in debug mode it is failing while doing operation on " resource_role_permissons_index" in system_auth keyspace. Please let me know how to bring the cassandra running from this state.
Logs from system.log INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,005 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.columns INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,012 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.triggers INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,019 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.dropped_columns INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,029 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.views INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,038 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.types INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,049 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.functions INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,061 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.aggregates INFO [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,072 ColumnFamilyStore.java:389 - Initializing system_schema.indexes ERROR [main] 2018-02-27 15:43:24,127 CassandraDaemon.java:709 - Exception encountered during startup java.lang.AssertionError: null at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType.getInstance(CompositeType.java:103) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.rebuild(CFMetaData.java:311) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.<init>(CFMetaData.java:288) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.create(CFMetaData.java:366) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.fetchTable(SchemaKeyspace.java:954) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.fetchTables(SchemaKeyspace.java:928) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.fetchKeyspace(SchemaKeyspace.java:891) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.fetchKeyspacesWithout(SchemaKeyspace.java:868) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.schema.SchemaKeyspace.fetchNonSystemKeyspaces(SchemaKeyspace.java:856) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.config.Schema.loadFromDisk(Schema.java:136) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.config.Schema.loadFromDisk(Schema.java:126) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:239) [apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:568) [apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:696) [apache-cassandra-3.0.9.jar:3.0.9] -- Regards, Mahesh Rajamani