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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-12539: --------------------------------------------- +1 > Empty CommitLog prevents restart > -------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-12539 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12539 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Stefano Ortolani > Assignee: Benjamin Lerer > Fix For: 2.2.x, 3.0.x, 3.11.x, 4.x > > > A node just crashed (known cause: CASSANDRA-11594) but to my surprise (unlike > other time) restarting simply fails. > Checking the logs showed: > {noformat} > ERROR [main] 2016-08-25 17:05:22,611 JVMStabilityInspector.java:82 - Exiting > due to error while processing commit log during initialization. > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer$CommitLogReplayException: > Could not read commit log descriptor in file > /data/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-6-1468235564433.log > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.handleReplayError(CommitLogReplayer.java:650) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:327) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:148) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:181) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:161) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:289) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:557) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:685) > [apache-cassandra-3.0.8.jar:3.0.8] > INFO [main] 2016-08-25 17:08:56,944 YamlConfigurationLoader.java:85 - > Configuration location: file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml > {noformat} > Deleting the empty file fixes the problem. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)