I followed step-by-step instructions for installing Cassandra on Red Hat Linux Server 6.3 from the datastax site, without much success. Apparently it installs fine but starting cassandra service does nothing(no ports are bound so opscenter/cli doesnt work). When I check service's status, it shows "Cassandra dead but pid file exists". When I try launching Cassandra from /usr/sbin, it throws "Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : /lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar" and stop, so clearly that's why service isn't running.
While I investigate it further, I thought it'd be worthwhile to put this on the list and see if anybody else saw similar issue. I must point out that this is fresh machine with fresh Cassandra installation so no conflicts with any previous installations are possible. So anybody else came across something similar? ~Amulya
