Cassandra requires jdk6.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Lee Roth <cassan...@easy48.com> wrote: > > I've downloaded the "incubating-0.5.0" tarset and unpacked it on my Solaris > 10 x86 box in a not-root account. > > Using the steps suggested in the README.txt to do a quickie tryout, I create > the /var/log/cassandra and /var/lib/cassandra directories, then try to > launch via "bin/cassandra -f" command. The launch fails thusly: > > Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8888 > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/cassandra/service/CassandraDaemon > > I have environmental JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_19 > > Full info on my Java version: > > $ /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_19/bin/java -version > java version "1.5.0_19" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_19-b02) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_19-b02, mixed mode, sharing) > $ > > I even tried defining CASSANDRA_CONF and pointing it to the ./conf subdir > where the tarfile was unpacked, but that did not help either. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Lee > >