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Leonid Shalupov commented on CASSANDRA-8544: -------------------------------------------- I've seen it two times locally, one time it was reported by the customer of JetBrains Upsource. It always with compactions_in_progress files, see exception below: {quote} 14:16:38.232 [MemtableFlushWriter:4] ERROR o.a.c.service.CassandraDaemon - Exception in thread Thread[MemtableFlushWriter:4,5,main] org.apache.cassandra.io.FSWriteError: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: C:\Tools\Upsource\data\cassandra\data\system\compactions_in_progress-55080a b05d9c388690a4acb25fe1f77b\system-compactions_in_progress-tmp-ka-13253-Statistics.db: Der Prozess kann nicht auf die Datei zugreifen, da sie von ein em anderen Prozess verwendet wird. at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:135) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:121) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTable.delete(SSTable.java:113) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.abort(SSTableWriter.java:355) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.abort(SSTableWriter.java:333) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable$FlushRunnable.writeSortedContents(Memtable.java:381) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.db.Memtable$FlushRunnable.runWith(Memtable.java:312) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DiskAwareRunnable.runMayThrow(DiskAwareRunnable.java:48) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors$SameThreadExecutorService.execute(MoreExecutors.java:297) ~[guava-16.0.jar:na] at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore$Flush.run(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1053) ~[cassandra-all-2.1.1.jar:2.1.1] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) ~[na:1.7.0_71] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) ~[na:1.7.0_71] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ~[na:1.7.0_71] {quote} This particular exception seems to be fixed by turning off AV and Windows Search, but it's no good to fail on the next start. > How are you resolving / working around this? Does it work after another > attempt to restart? No workarounds attempted. It doesn't work after another restart. > Attaching a patch that should print out some more details on the NPE if you > can reproduce it consistently. Unfortunately I can't reproduce it consistently, so no luck here. > Cassandra could not start with NPE in > ColumnFamilyStore.removeUnfinishedCompactionLeftovers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8544 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8544 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Windows > Reporter: Leonid Shalupov > Assignee: Joshua McKenzie > Labels: windows > Fix For: 2.1.3 > > Attachments: 8544_show_npe.txt > > > It happens sometimes after restarts caused by undeletable files under Windows. > {quote} > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.removeUnfinishedCompactionLeftovers(ColumnFamilyStore.java:579) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:232) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.init(CassandraDaemon.java:377) > at > com.jetbrains.cassandra.service.CassandraServiceMain.start(CassandraServiceMain.java:81) > ... 6 more > {quote} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)