sandeep thakur created CASSANDRA-10649: ------------------------------------------
Summary: Cassandra 2.1 start failed with exception:Exception encountered during startup Key: CASSANDRA-10649 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10649 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Configuration Environment: Linux: Fedora-16 64 bit Reporter: sandeep thakur Fix For: 2.1.x I am trying to setup cassandra single node cluster. i've downloaded below build: apache-cassandra-2.1.11-bin.tar.gz I've upgraded Java to 1.8 as well, as earlier it was throwing errors related to Java version. +++++ [root@localhost cassandra]# java -version java version "1.8.0_60" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode) +++++ I've also verified the cassandra.yaml file from "http://www.yamllint.com/" as well. But while starting cassandra, I am getting vague exception as below: ++++ INFO 15:52:11 Compacting [SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-18-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-17-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-20-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-19-Data.db')] INFO 15:52:11 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal INFO 15:52:11 Netty using native Epoll event loop ERROR 15:52:11 Exception encountered during startup java.lang.NullPointerException: null at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.run(Server.java:171) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11] at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.start(Server.java:117) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.start(CassandraDaemon.java:492) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:575) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:651) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11] java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.run(Server.java:171) at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.start(Server.java:117) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.start(CassandraDaemon.java:492) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:575) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:651) Exception encountered during startup: null INFO 15:52:11 Announcing shutdown INFO 15:52:11 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal INFO 15:52:11 Compacted 4 sstables to [/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-21,]. 11,427 bytes to 5,749 (~50% of original) in 199ms = 0.027551MB/s. 4 total partitions merged to 1. Partition merge counts were {4:1, } INFO 15:52:13 Waiting for messaging service to quiesce INFO 15:52:13 MessagingService has terminated the accept() thread [root@localhost server]# ++++ I've also posted the issue on stack overflow as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33514745/cassandra-startup-failed-with-exception-exception-encountered-during-startup Request some one to assist on this issue. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)