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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-2992: ------------------------------------------- so, use existing JAVA_HOME if set, else search for it? sounds good to me. > Cassandra doesn't start on Red Hat Linux due to hardcoded JAVA_HOME > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-2992 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2992 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.8.3 > Environment: CentOS release 5.6 > Reporter: Taras Puchko > Assignee: paul cannon > > On CentOS /etc/init.d/cassandra has > bq. export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/ > While there is no such a directory on our server it was ok for 0.8.2, because > /usr/sbin/cassandra checked the executable > {quote} > if [ -x $JAVA_HOME/bin/java ]; then > JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java > else > JAVA=`which java` > fi > {quote} > But 0.8.3 builds replaced the above code with one that doesn't check if > JAVA_HOME is set correctly. > {quote} > if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then > JAVA="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" > else > JAVA=java > fi > {quote} > That's why cassandra doesn't start anymore. > The correct fix would be to remove "export JAVA_HOME" from > /etc/init.d/cassandra or set it only to correct path and only if it hasn't > already been set. > It would also be nice to revert to "[ -x $JAVA_HOME/bin/java ]" in > /usr/sbin/cassandra -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira