Hi, all I recently encountered this behavior when adding new nodes to my Apache Cassandra 4.1.0 cluster. When I checked the system.log of the new added node, I found the following logs being logged repeatedly.
------------------------------ WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:26,722 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:26,722 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:36,731 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:36,731 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:46,736 NoSpamLogger.java:105 - "Cannot read from a bootstrapping node" while executing SELECT * FROM system_auth.roles WHERE role = 'cassandra' ALLOW FILTERING WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:46,736 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:46,736 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:56,745 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:50:56,745 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:06,749 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:06,749 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:16,750 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:16,750 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:26,754 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:26,754 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:36,763 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:36,763 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:46,768 NoSpamLogger.java:105 - "Cannot read from a bootstrapping node" while executing SELECT * FROM system_auth.roles WHERE role = 'cassandra' ALLOW FILTERING WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:46,768 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready INFO [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:46,768 CassandraRoleManager.java:395 - Setup task failed with error, rescheduling WARN [OptionalTasks:1] 2023-04-05 18:51:56,777 CassandraRoleManager.java:359 - CassandraRoleManager skipped default role setup: some nodes were not ready ------------------------------ When I restarted the process on this node, it went through the JOINING process once again and ended up in the UN state. I would appreciate your advice. Best regards.