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Joel Knighton commented on CASSANDRA-11934: ------------------------------------------- A patch will be available in the next release of the 2.2, 3.0, and 3.x series. I'm currently testing it, but it should be reviewed on the linked ticket soon. > 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)