This looks like a bug in 1.2 beta https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4553
Can you confirm you are running 1.2.1 and if you can re-create this with a clean install please create a ticket on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA Thanks ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 13/02/2013, at 1:22 AM, Ahmed Guecioueur <ahme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I am currently evaluating Cassandra on a single node. Running the node seems > fine, it responds to Thrift (via Hector) and CQL3 requests to create & delete > keyspaces. I have not yet tested any data operations. > > However, I get the following each time the node is started. This is using the > latest production jars (v 1.2.1) downloaded from the Apache website: > > > INFO [main] 2013-02-07 19:48:55,610 AutoSavingCache.java (line 139) reading > saved cache C:\Cassandra\saved_caches\system-local-KeyCache-b.db > WARN [main] 2013-02-07 19:48:55,614 AutoSavingCache.java (line 160) error > reading saved cache C:\Cassandra\saved_caches\system-local-KeyCache-b.db > java.io.EOFException > at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.readWithLength(ByteBufferUtil.java:349) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CacheService$KeyCacheSerializer.deserialize(CacheService.java:378) > at > org.apache.cassandra.cache.AutoSavingCache.loadSaved(AutoSavingCache.java:144) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:277) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:392) > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:364) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.initCf(Table.java:337) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:280) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:110) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:88) > at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemTable.checkHealth(SystemTable.java:421) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:177) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:370) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:413) > INFO [SSTableBatchOpen:1] 2013-02-07 19:48:56,212 SSTableReader.java (line > 164) Opening C:\Cassandra\data\system_auth\users\system_auth-users-ib-1 (72 > bytes) > INFO [main] 2013-02-07 19:48:56,242 CassandraDaemon.java (line 224) > completed pre-loading (3 keys) key cache. > > > That binary file exists, though ofc the content is unreadable. Deleting the > file and letting it be recreated doesn't help either. > > Can anyone suggest any other solutions? > > Cheers > Ahmed