Thanks.
The Jira describes a workaround by copying system.peers table. Not an
appetizing option. I reviewed the changes.txt for 5.0.6, but it does not
address the issue. What is the C* dev team recommending to get out of this
situation? Avoid 5.0.5 for now? Go back to 5.0.4?

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-5.0.6/CHANGES.txt

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM manish khandelwal <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Generally a decommissioned node goes in hibernate state and if not wrong
> it is there for 72 hours. Not seen same for dead node replacement though
> not tested 5.0.5 as well.
>
> Regards
> Manish
>
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 at 3:13 AM, dbms-tech <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We are testing 5.0.5 as a viable upgrade target in our lab environment.
>> We noticed that when we replace a dead node, bootstrapping fails with the
>> error below.
>>
>> Some facts ...
>> 1- We didn't see this failure with 5.0.4. Started with 5.0.5.
>> 2- Ruled out networking issues. Seeds IP's are reachable by the node.
>>
>> This issue looks very similar to CASSANDRA-19580. Other nodes will not
>> send SYN messages to a node in hibernate state.
>>
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-19580?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17930471
>>
>>
>> The Jira above describes some workarounds, but they appear unreasonable
>> like copying system.peers table.
>>
>> 1- Is there a behavioral change in 5.0.5?
>> 2- Is there an operational workaround?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ############################
>> Bootstrap failure messages
>> ############################
>> INFO  [MemtableFlushWriter:3] 2025-11-10 20:01:06,450
>> LogTransaction.java:249 - Unfinished transaction log, deleting
>> /data/cassandra/system/peers-37f71aca7dc2383ba70672528af04d4f/bti-da_txn_flush_fe335670-be6f-11f0-87fb-35b5e3b8e93a.log
>> Exception (java.lang.IllegalStateException) encountered during startup:
>> Unable to contact any seeds: [/10.xxx:7000, /10.xxxx:7000, /10.xxx:7000]
>> java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to contact any seeds:
>> [/10.xxx:7000, /10.xxx:7000, /10.xxx:7000]
>>         at
>> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.bootstrap(StorageService.java:2196)
>>         at
>> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:1291)
>>         at
>> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:1251)
>>         at
>> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:1032)
>>         at
>> org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:947)
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ############################
>> The boostrapping node is in hibernate state
>> ############################
>> [ec2-user@ip-10-xxxx conf]$ nodetool gossipinfo
>> /10.xxx
>>   generation:1762808084
>>   heartbeat:16
>>   STATUS:3:hibernate,true
>>   SCHEMA:15:59adb24e-f3cd-3e02-97f0-5b395827453f
>>   DC:11:us-east-1
>>   RACK:13:us-east-1a
>>   RELEASE_VERSION:8:5.0.5
>>   RPC_ADDRESS:7:10.xxxx
>>   NET_VERSION:4:13
>>   HOST_ID:5:28fcc0eb-f7aa-4626-a46b-5551438b6b4e
>>   NATIVE_ADDRESS_AND_PORT:6:10.xxxxx:9042
>>   STATUS_WITH_PORT:2:hibernate,true
>>   SSTABLE_VERSIONS:9:bti-da
>>   TOKENS:1:<hidden>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>>

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