I had this problem using a rather old version of Open JDK. I downloaded the Sun JDK and its working now.
Brian On Feb 4, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Kumar, Anjani wrote: > Thank you Aaron! I uninstalled older version of Cassandra and then brought > 1.2.1 version of apache Cassandra as per your mail below. However, I am > receiving the following error while starting Cassandra. > anjani@anjani-laptop:~/apache-cassandra-1.2.1/bin$ ./cassandra > xss = -ea -javaagent:./../lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities > -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms1005M -Xmx1005M -Xmn200M > -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss180k > > > Thanks, > Anjani > > From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:34 AM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: cassandra cqlsh error > > Grab 1.2.1, it's fixed there http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 5/02/2013, at 4:37 AM, "Kumar, Anjani" <anjani.ku...@infogroup.com> wrote: > > > > I am facing problem while trying to run cqlsh. Here is what I did: > > 1. I brought the tar ball files for both 1.1.7 and 1.2.0 version. > 2. Unzipped and untarred it > 3. Started Cassandra > 4. And then tried starting cqlsh but I am getting the following error > in both the versions: > Connection error: Invalid method name: ‘set_cql_version’ > > Before installing Datastax 1.1.7 and 1.2.0 cassandra, I had installed > Cassandra through “sudo apt-get install Cassandra” on my ubuntu. Since it > doesn’t have CQL support(at least I cant find it) so I thought of installing > Datastax version of Cassandra but still no luck starting cqlsh so far. Any > suggestion? > > Thanks, > Anjani > >
