Hi,
During restart cassandra not is failing to start The error is ERROR [main] 2012-01-01 05:03:42,903 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 354) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.AssertionError: attempted to delete non-existing file AttractionUserIdx.AttractionUserIdx_09partition_idx-h-1-Data.db at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:49) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:44) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTable.delete(SSTable.java:133) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyS tore.java:355) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyS tore.java:402) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandra Daemon.java:174) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassan draDaemon.java:337) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:107) can someone tell me how to recover from that thanks Michael