I'm testing upgrading a multi-node cluster from 1.0.9 to 1.1.5 and ran into the error message described here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4195
What I can't tell is if this is a serious issue or if it can be safely ignored. If it is a serious issue, shouldn't the migration guides for 1.1.x require that upgrades cannot be rolling or that all nodes must be running 1.0.11 or greater first? 2012-09-11 17:12:46,299 [GossipStage:1] ERROR org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon - Fatal exception in thread Thread[GossipStage:1,5,main] java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Not a time-based UUID at java.util.UUID.timestamp(UUID.java:308) at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.updateHighestKnown(MigrationManager.java:121) at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.rectify(MigrationManager.java:99) at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.onAlive(MigrationManager.java:83) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.markAlive(Gossiper.java:806) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.handleMajorStateChange(Gossiper.java:849) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.applyStateLocally(Gossiper.java:908) at org.apache.cassandra.gms.GossipDigestAckVerbHandler.doVerb(GossipDigestAckVerbHandler.java:68) at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:59) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) -Bryan