Hi, I am trying to upgrade Datastax Cassandra 4.8.14 to 5.0.12, which is Cassandra version 2.0.1 to 3.4.0.
The software upgrade operation went fine. But during sstable upgrade, I am getting the following error: nodetool upgradesstables error: commitlog directory '/cassandra_dir/commitlog' or, if it does not already exist, an existing parent directory of it, is not readable and writable for the DSE. Check file system and configuration. -- StackTrace -- org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: commitlog directory '/cassandra_dir/commitlog' or, if it does not already exist, an existing parent directory of it, is not readable and writable for the DSE. Check file system and configuration. at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.resolveAndCheckDirectory(DatabaseDescriptor.java:801) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.applyConfig(DatabaseDescriptor.java:538) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:131) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeProbe.checkJobs(NodeProbe.java:274) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeProbe.upgradeSSTables(NodeProbe.java:328) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.nodetool.UpgradeSSTable.execute(UpgradeSSTable.java:54) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool$NodeToolCmd.run(NodeTool.java:253) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool.main(NodeTool.java:167) Here is my directory structure: ls -ld /cassandra_dir/* drwxr-xr-x 2 cassandra cassandra 4096 Mar 14 01:23 /cassandra_dir/commitlog drwxr-xr-x 11 cassandra cassandra 4096 Mar 14 01:15 /cassandra_dir/data drwxr-xr-x 2 cassandra cassandra 4096 Mar 14 01:14 /cassandra_dir/hints drwxr-xr-x 2 cassandra cassandra 4096 Mar 14 01:04 /cassandra_dir/saved_caches Can anyone please tell me why I am getting the above error? Thanks.