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Stefania commented on CASSANDRA-10788: -------------------------------------- This would happen if for some reason we have a file instead of a folder in the keyspace folder. I reproduced it with a new unit test, we had a bug in our directory filter. I've also added a couple more trace messages. Patches and CI are here: ||3.0||3.1||trunk|| |[patch|https://github.com/stef1927/cassandra/commits/10788-3.0]|[patch|https://github.com/stef1927/cassandra/commits/10788-3.1]|[patch|https://github.com/stef1927/cassandra/commits/10788]| |[testall|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-3.0-testall/]|[testall|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-3.1-testall/]|[testall|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-testall/]| |[dtest|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-3.0-dtest/]|[dtest|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-3.1-dtest/]|[dtest|http://cassci.datastax.com/view/Dev/view/stef1927/job/stef1927-10788-dtest/]| > Upgrade from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0 fails with NullPointerException > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-10788 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10788 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Lifecycle > Reporter: Tomas Ramanauskas > Assignee: Stefania > Fix For: 3.0.x, 3.x > > > I tried to upgrade Cassandra from 2.2.1 to 3.0.0, however, I get this error > on startup after Cassandra 3.0 software was installed: > {code} > ERROR [main] 2015-11-30 15:44:50,164 CassandraDaemon.java:702 - Exception > encountered during startup > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.delete(FileUtils.java:374) > ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0] > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.migrateDataDirs(SystemKeyspace.java:1341) > ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:180) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:561) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:689) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.0.jar:3.0.0] > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)