Also I always install JNA from the JNA page. I did the installation for this blog post in CentOS 6.5: http://www.pythian.com/blog/from-0-to-cassandra-an-exhaustive-approach-to-installing-cassandra/
Regards, Carlos Juzarte Rolo Cassandra Consultant Pythian - Love your data rolo@pythian | Twitter: cjrolo | Linkedin: *linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo <http://linkedin.com/in/carlosjuzarterolo>* Tel: 1649 www.pythian.com On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Garret Pick <pic...@whistle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On this page > > > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installJnaRHEL.html > > it says > > "Cassandra requires JNA 3.2.7 or later. Some Yum repositories may provide > earlier versions" > > and at the bottom > > "If you can't install using Yum or it provides a version of the JNA > earlier than 3.2.7, install as described in Installing the JNA from the JAR > file." > > Which version of OS and Cassandra are you running? > > thanks, > Garret > > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:46 AM, J. Ryan Earl <o...@jryanearl.us> wrote: > > > > We've been using jna-3.2.4-2.el6.x86_64 with the Sun/Oracle JDK for > probably 2-years now, and it works just fine. Where are you seeing 3.2.7 > required at? I searched the pages you link and that string isn't even in > there. > > > > Regardless, I assure you the newest jna that ships in the EL6 repo works > without issues. > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Garret Pick <pic...@whistle.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm having problems getting cassandra to start with the configuration > listed above. > >> > >> Yum wants to install 3.2.4-2.el6 of the JNA along with several other > packages including java-1.7.0-openjdk > >> > >> The documentation states that a JNA version earlier that 3.2.7 should > not be used, so the jar file should be downloaded and installed directly > into C*'s lib directory per > >> > >> > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installJnaTar.html > >> > >> From /var/log/cassandra/system.log > >> > >> all I see is > >> > >> INFO [main] 2015-02-25 20:06:10,202 CassandraDaemon.java (line 191) > Classpath: > /etc/cassandra/conf:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-clientutil-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/apache-cassandra-thrift-2.0.12.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang3-3.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/disruptor-3.0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-15.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jbcrypt-0.3m.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jna.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.9.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/lz4-1.2.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/netty-3.6.6.Final.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/reporter-config-2.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.11.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/super-csv-2.1.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/thrift-server-0.3.7.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar > >> > >> and it never actually starts > >> > >> Note that JNA is in the classpath above and is when I remove it, > cassandra starts successfully. > >> > >> I tried installing the DSE package and it looks like it wants to > install the older 3.2.4 JNA as a dependency so there seems to be a > discrepancy in documentation > >> > >> Per > >> > >> > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/datastax_enterprise/4.6/datastax_enterprise/install/installRHELdse.html > >> > >> Note: JNA (Java Native Access) is automatically installed. > >> > >> thanks for any help, > >> Garret > > > > > -- --
