Robert Marshall created CASSANDRA-11934: -------------------------------------------
Summary: System keyspace corruption Key: CASSANDRA-11934 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11934 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Environment: Have seen on Mac and CoreOS Reporter: Robert Marshall A node that fails to gossip with seeds on initial startup appears to cause a corruption of the system keyspace. To reproduce sets seed to invalid address and start node. It will fall over with: Exception (java.lang.RuntimeException) encountered during startup: Unable to gossip with any seeds java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to gossip with any seeds Then upon restarting cassandra a configuration exception will be seen, indicating a problem with the system keyspace ERROR 06:01:26 Fatal exception during initialization org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: Found system keyspace files, but they couldn't be loaded! at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemKeyspace.checkHealth(SystemKeyspace.java:907) ~[apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] at org.apache.cassandra.service.StartupChecks$8.execute(StartupChecks.java:304) ~[apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] at org.apache.cassandra.service.StartupChecks.verify(StartupChecks.java:107) ~[apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:169) [apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:551) [apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:680) [apache-cassandra-3.5.jar:3.5] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)