Hi Vishanth,
This could be due to a permission issue as mentioned. You can find more
information on solutions here[1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3291474/cassandra-installation-issue

Regards,
Inosh

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Ravindra Ranwala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Vishanth,
>
> Can you please copy Cassandra into some directory under your $HOME
> directory and execute *./cassandra* command after moving to the
> *$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin* directory. Also make sure to switch your JVM to
> some jdk 1.7 version prior to run the above command since Cassandra needs
> jdk 1.7or later version. As Niranda mentioned this could be a permission
> issue. Setting the $CASSANDRA_HOME environment variable is also optional.
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Niranda Perera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vishanth,
>>
>> this might be a permission issue since you have installed in the /opt/
>> directory. alter the permissions of the directory (perform with care!!!) or
>> try manually downloading a cassandra release as mentioned here [1].
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Dimuthu De Lanerolle <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Reported a similar error here. [1]
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16851308/i-am-getting-this-error-when-i-am-starting-cassandra-server
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Vishanth Balasubramaniam <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Getting this following error when I run Cassandra.
>>>>
>>>> root@instance-00000001:/opt/cassandra/bin# cassandra
>>>> root@instance-00000001:/opt/cassandra/bin# Exception in thread "main"
>>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
>>>> org/apache/cassandra/service/CassandraDaemon
>>>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>>>> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon
>>>> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
>>>> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
>>>> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
>>>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
>>>> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
>>>> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
>>>> Could not find the main class:
>>>> org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.  Program will exit.
>>>>
>>>> I tried the commands cassandra, cassandra -f, cassandra -f start, which
>>>> all prompted me the same error.
>>>>
>>>> I believe this could be because of incorrect Classpath, I would like to
>>>> know how to set the Classpath correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
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