I decommissioned a seed node from the cluster but now it still shows up in the log files but does not show up in "nodetool status". The steps I took to decommission this seed node was first I added another node to the seed node list and remove this node from the seed node list and then restarted all nodes, and then I used "nodetool decommission" to remove the seed node (which is already not a seed node anymore by this time because I have deleted it from the seed node list). Now when I add a node to the cluster, I can see things like this in the log file:
INFO [GossipStage:1] 2016-05-03 12:47:11,010 Gossiper.java:1010 - InetAddress /10.240.131.52 is now DOWN INFO [GossipStage:1] 2016-05-03 12:47:11,013 StorageService.java:2207 - Removing tokens [-1022524973634126820, -1080110197540691971, -1091685779109535219, -1215861550002479909, -1230125663037298110, -1276347863826680388, -1277321492456111075, -1301927496688170836, -1318545134739242389, -1322771136875660408, -1378340458058304278, -1408100110415631237, -1530631940375897404, -1535071782926085329, -1582947345179885144, -16012799486150337, -1696192817763838199, -1728191989986713155, -1745583338734596530, -1826663257009694585, -1851642471126916817, -1857538886064358546, -1901715377875763790, -1932177981591882421, -199072269576364247, -207608666599084705, -2184481684522309754, -2204020999427045206, -2205085893777233579, -2270561486823228034, -2308298192046286704, -235429323779874179, -2463024446587312335, -2495920187667193798, -2500756743826875052, -2506627651269234078, 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What does this issue impact (assuming this is an issue)? And how should I fix it? Charles
