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Rance Smith commented on CASSANDRA-11292: ----------------------------------------- I played with this more and was able to get it upgraded by going from 2.1.9 -> 2.2.5 -> 3.3 FYI this DB did start with version 2.1.9 originally. > upgrade from 2.1.9 to 3.3 getting Nulllpointerexception "Exception > encountered during startup" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-11292 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11292 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Gentoo kernel: 4.1.6 JVM Oracle 1.8.0_51-b16 > Reporter: Rance Smith > Attachments: startup.log > > > I am getting this error after starting the service after changing the > versions. > first I was getting errors about KeyCache stuff > unreadable sstables > /data/cassandradb/saved_caches/fs_lua_test-fs_logs-da74c450c57111e5aa19ede33216fac0-KeyCache-b.db > I removed all this as suggested by some post. > Then started it again and got the next error. which appear to be trying to > convert the system schema. FYI I have enabled Authentication, but no > authorization for this server. > ERROR 03:32:57 Exception encountered during startup > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > Let me know what other information I can provide. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)