Can you wipe all the data directories, saved_cache, and commitlog and let the 
node bootstrap again?


Sean Durity

From: Nimi Wariboko Jr [mailto:n...@channelmeter.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 6:59 PM
To: cassandra-u...@apache.org
Subject: NullPointerException when trying to compact under 3.2

Hi,

I recently upgraded from 2.1.12 to 3.2, and one issue I'm having is I can no 
longer read certain rows from a table. A simple SELECT * FROM `table` times 
out, only when the bad partition keys are reached. Trying to query the affected 
partition keys directly also causes a timeout.

I think the SSTable might be corrupted because nodetool compact (and repair) 
fails (although scrub succeeds). With Debug logging, a compact results in:

cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3778-big-Data.db:level=0,
 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3780-big-Data.db:level=0,
 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3775-big-Data.db:level=0,
 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3776-big-Data.db:level=0,
 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3798-big-Data.db:level=0,
 ]
WARN  [CompactionExecutor:5] 2016-01-25 15:13:02,734 SSTableReader.java:261 - 
Reading cardinality from Statistics.db failed for 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/cmpayments/report_payments-f675e45076ce11e5938129463d90c3f0/ma-3778-big-Data.db
ERROR [CompactionExecutor:5] 2016-01-25 15:13:02,777 CassandraDaemon.java:195 - 
Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:5,1,main]
java.lang.NullPointerException: null

(the NPE has no stack trace).

On disk, the SSTable "ma-3778-big-Data.db" does not exist. Even if I scrub or 
restart, Cassandra seems to always try to compact this non existent table (the 
SSTables on Disk are numbered 3851+).

I'm assuming the SSTables are fubared, and I'd like to restore a snapshot, but 
the fact this "ghost" sstable causes the compaction to fail, I'm unsure if 
restoring a new set of sstables would actually solve the issue.

Nimi

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