Hi Aaron, what exactly do you mean? I restarted the cluster by calling
> bin/cassandra -p pid.file on all three nodes. The first node is the (only) seed. Udo Am 27.04.2011 um 23:28 schrieb Aaron Morton: > What approach did you take to restarting the cluster? > > It looks like the keyspace name was changed and the log replay tried to write > to the old one. > > Aaron > > On 28/04/2011, at 12:03 AM, Subscriber <subscri...@zfabrik.de> wrote: > >> Hi again, >> >> some more remarks. >> I renamed the commitlog directory on the third node so that cassandra cannot >> see it on startup. >> Now the node starts fine. The problem seems to have something to do with the >> commitlogs... >> >> Best Regards >> Udo >> >> >> Am 27.04.2011 um 13:22 schrieb Subscriber: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using Cassandra 0.7.4 on a three node cluster. The cluster was setup >>> yesterday as a fresh installation (no upgrade). >>> The cluster is installed beside a hadoop cluster (I want to discover how >>> cassandra works together with hadoop's map/reduce feature). >>> >>> After loading some test data into the cassandra cluster (some text-files >>> for a first wordcount m/r example ;-) I killed all nodes and restarted the >>> cluster. >>> Two nodes are starting fine but the third node doesn't start and throws a >>> NullPointerException: >>> >>> INFO 12:44:42,557 Finished reading >>> /home/.../cassandra/work/commitlog/CommitLog-1303828029742.log >>> ERROR 12:44:42,558 Exception encountered during startup. >>> java.lang.NullPointerException >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.createReplicationStrategy(Table.java:275) >>> at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:221) >>> at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:110) >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:273) >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:156) >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:173) >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:314) >>> at >>> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:79) >>> Exception encountered during startup. >>> >>> This looks pretty much the same as issue >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1889 which is in resolution >>> "cannot reproduce". >>> >>> What can I do to make the node starting again? >>> >>> Thanks in advance and best regards >>> Udo >>