I resolved this by doing more rolling restarts on the nodes that had this
WARN it's just more restarts than I thought I would have to do.
annoying!
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Yucheng Liu wrote:
> *Env: * apache cassandra 2.1.8, 6-nodes
>
> *Problem: *one node had kernel panic and crashed twice this morning.
> seems gossip generation was messed up. all nodes are flooded with
> "received an invalid gossip generation for peer" warning messages.
> multiple rolling restarts only fixed "nodetool status". the warning
> messages are still happening. and gossipinfo is showing "shutdown" for some
> nodes.
>
> *Question: *Does anyone know how to get rid of this warning messages?
> take the whole cluster down is not desired as this is production.
>
> *$ nodetool gossipinfo|grep STATUS*
> STATUS:NORMAL,3074457345618258600
> STATUS:NORMAL,-3074457345618258604
> STATUS:NORMAL,6148914691236517202
> STATUS:shutdown,true
> STATUS:shutdown,true
> STATUS:NORMAL,-9223372036854775808
>
> *system.log:*
>
> WARN [GossipStage:1] 2016-10-12 09:58:02,913 Gossiper.java:1078 -
> received an invalid gossip generation for peer /10.150.12.118; local
> generation = 144263, received generation = 1476286723
>
> cqlsh> select gossip_generation from system.local;
>
> *1476286662 (I don't see where 144263 is from...)*
>
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