Ah.. okay I see - somehow i guess cassandra bundles its own version of avro 1.4 , which was somehow stuck in my classpatch. I've removed it and now the error is gone :)
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > My other guess would be to explicitly include the avro-mapred dependency > in your top-level POM. Version 1.7.4 should do the trick. > > J > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Jay Vyas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hmmm.. updated the sources but no luck :( >> >> .. I've posted the issue here: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20951839/how-to-trace-the-origin-of-initv-failures-in-avro >> . >> > > > > -- > Director of Data Science > Cloudera <http://www.cloudera.com> > Twitter: @josh_wills <http://twitter.com/josh_wills> > -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
