I have a dead node I need to remove from the cluster so that I can rebalance 
among the existing servers (can't replace it for a while).

I used nodetool removetoken and it's been stuck in the "leaving" state for over 
a day now.  I've tried a rolling restart, which kicks of some streaming for a 
while under netstats but now even that lists nothing going on.

I'm stuck on what to do next to get this node to finally leave so I can move 
the tokens around.

Only error I see in the system log:

ERROR [Thread-209] 2011-12-11 01:40:34,347 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 
133) Fatal exception in thread Thread[Thread-209,5,main]
java.lang.AssertionError
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledManifest.promote(LeveledManifest.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledCompactionStrategy.handleNotification(LeveledCompactionStrategy.java:141)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.DataTracker.notifySSTablesChanged(DataTracker.java:481)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DataTracker.replace(DataTracker.java:275)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DataTracker.addSSTables(DataTracker.java:237)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.DataTracker.addStreamedSSTable(DataTracker.java:242)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.addSSTable(ColumnFamilyStore.java:920)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.streaming.StreamInSession.closeIfFinished(StreamInSession.java:141)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.streaming.IncomingStreamReader.read(IncomingStreamReader.java:103)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.stream(IncomingTcpConnection.java:184)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.net.IncomingTcpConnection.run(IncomingTcpConnection.java:81)

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