There are no errors in the oozie.log unfortunately. The shutdown message is me killing it after it not responding:
2012-10-05 16:56:20,551 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.ProxyUserService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,552 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.GroupsService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,552 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.PauseTransitService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,552 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.StatusTransitService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,552 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.CoordMaterializeTriggerService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,552 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.DagEngineService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.BundleEngineService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.CoordinatorEngineService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.PurgeService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.RecoveryService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.ActionCheckerService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,553 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.ActionService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.CallbackService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.WorkflowStoreService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.SLAStoreService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.CoordinatorStoreService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.StoreService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,554 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.JPAService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,555 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.WorkflowAppService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,555 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.SchemaService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.DagXLogInfoService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.MemoryLocksService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.HadoopAccessorService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.AuthorizationService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.ELService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,556 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.UUIDService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,557 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.CallableQueueService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,558 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.InstrumentationService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,558 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.SchedulerService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,560 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.ConfigurationService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,561 DEBUG Services:548 - Destroying service[class org.apache.oozie.service.XLogService] 2012-10-05 16:56:20,561 INFO Services:539 - Shutdown For more information, I copied the dse-2.1.jar into the libext/ folder, as well as the jars from Datastax's Cassandra and Hadoop lib folders, then ran bin/oozie-setup.sh and bin/oozie-start.sh without any errors/exceptions. libext/ folder contents: ant-1.6.5.jar antlr-2.7.7.jar antlr-3.2.jar antlr-runtime-3.2.jar avro-1.4.0-cassandra-1.jar cassandra-all-1.0.10.jar cassandra-clientutil-1.0.10.jar cassandra-jdbc-1.0.5-20120514.145502-2.jar cassandra-thrift-1.0.10.jar commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar commons-beanutils-core-1.8.0.jar commons-cli-1.1.jar commons-cli-1.2.jar commons-codec-1.4.jar commons-collections-3.2.1.jar commons-configuration-1.6.jar commons-digester-1.8.jar commons-el-1.0.jar commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar commons-lang-2.4.jar commons-logging-1.0.4.jar commons-logging-1.1.1.jar commons-math-2.1.jar commons-net-1.4.1.jar compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.2.jar core-3.1.1.jar dse-2.1.jar ext-2.2.zip ftplet-api-1.0.0.jar ftpserver-core-1.0.0.jar ftpserver-deprecated-1.0.0-M2.jar guava-r08.jar hadoop-core-1.0.2-dse-20120522.195802-4.jar hadoop-examples-1.0.2-dse-20120522.195802-4.jar hadoop-fairscheduler-0.20.203.1-brisk1.jar hadoop-streaming-1.0.2-dse-20120522.195802-4.jar hadoop-test-1.0.2-dse-20120522.195802-4.jar hadoop-tools-1.0.2-dse-20120522.195802-4.jar high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar hsqldb-1.8.0.10.jar httpclient-4.0.1.jar httpcore-4.0.1.jar jackson-core-asl-1.0.1.jar jackson-core-asl-1.4.0.jar jackson-mapper-asl-1.0.1.jar jackson-mapper-asl-1.4.0.jar jamm-0.2.5.jar jasper-compiler-5.5.12.jar jasper-runtime-5.5.12.jar jets3t-0.7.1.jar jetty-6.1.22.jar jetty-6.1.26.jar jetty-util-6.1.22.jar jetty-util-6.1.26.jar jline-0.9.94.jar joda-time-1.6.2.jar json-simple-1.1.jar jsp-2.1-6.1.14.jar jsp-api-2.1-6.1.14.jar kfs-0.3.jar libthrift-0.6.1.jar log4j-1.2.16.jar mina-core-2.0.0-M5.jar oro-2.0.8.jar servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar servlet-api-2.5-6.1.14.jar servlet-api-2.5.jar slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar snakeyaml-1.6.jar snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar stringtemplate-3.2.jar xmlenc-0.52.jar
