Wing Lian created CASSANDRA-4489: ------------------------------------ Summary: LCS with Composite Columns NPE Key: CASSANDRA-4489 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4489 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 1.1.2 Environment: Mac OS X 10.8
java version "1.6.0_33" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_33-b03-424-11M3720) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.8-b03-424, mixed mode) Reporter: Wing Lian Creating the CF in cqlsh -3 cqlsh> CREATE KEYSPACE tt WITH strategy_class=SimpleStrategy AND strategy_options:replication_factor=1; cqlsh> USE tt; cqlsh:tt> CREATE TABLE breakable ( ... dt timestamp, ... id timeuuid, ... metadata text, ... PRIMARY KEY (dt, id) ... ); cqlsh:tt> Then changing to LCS using the CLI [default@unknown] use tt; Authenticated to keyspace: tt [default@tt] update column family breakable with compaction_strategy=LeveledCompactionStrategy; org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException And then trying to view the table schema cqlsh:tt> describe table breakable; 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith' cqlsh:tt> Restarting cassandra causes an NPE ERROR 17:10:53,487 Exception encountered during startup java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124) at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77) at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35) at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$Row.getString(UntypedResultSet.java:87) at org.apache.cassandra.config.ColumnDefinition.fromSchema(ColumnDefinition.java:256) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.addColumnDefinitionSchema(CFMetaData.java:1293) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1225) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:294) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromSchema(KSMetaData.java:275) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromTable(DefsTable.java:158) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:535) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:182) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:353) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124) at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77) at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97) at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35) at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$Row.getString(UntypedResultSet.java:87) at org.apache.cassandra.config.ColumnDefinition.fromSchema(ColumnDefinition.java:256) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.addColumnDefinitionSchema(CFMetaData.java:1293) at org.apache.cassandra.config.CFMetaData.fromSchema(CFMetaData.java:1225) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserializeColumnFamilies(KSMetaData.java:294) at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.fromSchema(KSMetaData.java:275) at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromTable(DefsTable.java:158) at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:535) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:182) at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:353) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106) Exception encountered during startup: null -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira