They
1) setup a two node cluster and loaded 500K rows or something
2) add a third node, run nodetool move
3) while moving they pull the plug on the node
Cassandra won't start with the exception below. Now, this is obviously a very
exceptional situation but the question is posed:
how best to recover this?
Observation:-
After the machine was up, the cassandra service failed to start. Following
exception was observed in the cassandra logs:-
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input
length = 1
at
org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:50)
at
org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CFDefinition.getKeyId(CFDefinition.java:125)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.CFDefinition.<init>(CFDefinition.java:59)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.updateCfDef(CFMetaData.java:1278)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.keyAlias(CFMetaData.java:221)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchemaNoColumns(CFMetaData.java:1162)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1190)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:291)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromSchema(KSMetaData.java:272)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromTable(DefsTable.java:158)
at
org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:533)
at
org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:182)
at
org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.init(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:254)
at com.intel.soae.cassandra.server.SOAEDaemon.init(SOAEDaemon.java:435)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.load(DaemonLoader.java:207)
Caused by: java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1
at java.nio.charset.CoderResult.throwException(Unknown Source)
at java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder.decode(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:163)
at
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:120)
at
org.apache.cassandra.cql3.ColumnIdentifier.<init>(ColumnIdentifier.java:46)
... 18 more
