Hi all. I am using cassandra 1.0.0. I created a keyspace with all the column family definitions at runtime and it works fine until I stop and then restart the cassandra server. During it's startup I see this error in the cassandra log :
ERROR 16:22:16,977 Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not inflate CFMetaData for {"keyspace": "V360HC", "name": "Val1H", "column_type": "Standard", "comparator_type": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.ReversedType(org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.LongType)", "subcomparator_type": null, "comment": "", "row_cache_size": 0.0, "key_cache_size": 200000.0, "read_repair_chance": 1.0, "replicate_on_write": true, "gc_grace_seconds": 864000, "default_validation_class": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.BytesType", "key_validation_class": "org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType", "min_compaction_threshold": 4, "max_compaction_threshold": 32, "row_cache_save_period_in_seconds": 0, "key_cache_save_period_in_seconds": 14400, "row_cache_keys_to_save": 2147483647, "merge_shards_chance": 0.1, "id": 1087, "column_metadata": [], "row_cache_provider": "org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider", "key_alias": null, "compaction_strategy": "org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy", "compaction_strategy_options": {}, "compression_options": {}} at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromAvro(CFMetaData.java:350) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromAvro(KSMetaData.java:180) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromStorage(DefsTable.java:99) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:508) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:161) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:337) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106) Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Invalid definition for comparator org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType. at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getRawAbstractType(TypeParser.java:319) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getAbstractType(TypeParser.java:247) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.parse(TypeParser.java:83) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.parse(TypeParser.java:92) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromAvro(CFMetaData.java:346) ... 6 more Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Nonsensical empty parameter list for CompositeType at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType.getInstance(CompositeType.java:67) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.CompositeType.getInstance(CompositeType.java:61) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.TypeParser.getRawAbstractType(TypeParser.java:307) ... 10 more Please advise Thanks Vitaly