There's not a lot of useful information in that error. Cassandra consumes the stack trace and any exceptions underneath that cause the error instantiating the snitch. I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1682 so we can include a full stack trace.
In the meantime, I'd say that classpath is the likely culprit. Gary. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:32, Jérôme Verstrynge <jvers...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to start a CassandraEmbeddedService for JUnit testing, using the > 'standard' YAML configuration I found in Hector (no modification). I use > 0.7.0-beta2 and I systematically get the following error message: > > 3687 [main] INFO org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor - Loading > settings from file:/C:... .../Cassandra/cassandra.yaml > 4084 [main] INFO org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor - > DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be standard, indexAccessMode is standard > 4110 [main] ERROR org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor - Fatal > error: Error instantiating snitch class > 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSnitch'. > Bad configuration; unable to start server > > Googling does not return much information. Does anyone know what is > happening? > > Thanks, > > JVerstry > > P.S.: It is very late here -> going to bed and will read answers tomorrow. >
