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David Semeria updated CASSANDRA-4496:
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    Description: 
The following code has been working fine up to and including 1.0.x

public static String createIndexedColumnFamily(String cf){
    
    Cluster cluster = HectorConfig.cluster;
    ComparatorType ctName = 
ComparatorType.getByClassName(JNameComparator.class.getName());
    
    try{
      cluster.dropColumnFamily(HectorConfig.dfltKeyspaceName, cf );
    } catch (Exception e){}
  
    List<ColumnDefinition> cdL = new ArrayList<ColumnDefinition>();
    BasicColumnDefinition cd;
    
    cd = new BasicColumnDefinition();
    cd.setName(ss.toByteBuffer("id"));
    cd.setIndexName("id");
    cd.setIndexType(ColumnIndexType.KEYS);
    cd.setValidationClass(JValueComparator.class.getName());
    cdL.add(cd);

    ThriftCfDef cfd= new ThriftCfDef(HectorConfig.dfltKeyspaceName, cf, ctName, 
cdL); 
    cfd.setKeyValidationClass(ComparatorType.UTF8TYPE.getClassName());
    cfd.setDefaultValidationClass(JValueComparator.class.getName());
    cluster.addColumnFamily(cfd); 
    
    return "created: " + cf;
  }
}

I'm inclined to exclude the presence of the custom comparator since:
(1) there is no issue using it if the cf doesn't have a secondary index
(2) the stack trace (see below) doesn't include the comparator 

With 1.1.3, the above code cassandra throws the following error:


david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
-XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M -Xmn32M 
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k

 INFO 23:15:31,333 Logging initialized
 INFO 23:15:31,337 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
 INFO 23:15:31,338 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
 INFO 23:15:31,338 Classpath: 
/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
 INFO 23:15:31,340 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
 INFO 23:15:31,351 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
 INFO 23:15:31,566 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode 
is mmap
 INFO 23:15:31,875 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
 INFO 23:15:32,380 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
 INFO 23:15:32,394 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
save all keys).
 INFO 23:15:32,395 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
 INFO 23:15:32,400 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
all keys).
 INFO 23:15:32,661 Couldn't detect any schema definitions in local storage.
 INFO 23:15:32,665 Found table data in data directories. Consider using the CLI 
to define your schema.
 INFO 23:15:32,714 No commitlog files found; skipping replay
 INFO 23:15:32,740 Cassandra version: 1.1.2
 INFO 23:15:32,754 Thrift API version: 19.32.0
 INFO 23:15:32,763 CQL supported versions: 2.0.0,3.0.0-beta1 (default: 2.0.0)
 INFO 23:15:32,803 Loading persisted ring state
 INFO 23:15:32,807 Starting up server gossip
 INFO 23:15:32,821 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 
serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
 INFO 23:15:32,822 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 
serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,072 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1-Data.db 
(235 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=587)
 INFO 23:15:33,094 Starting Messaging Service on port 7000
 INFO 23:15:33,102 This node will not auto bootstrap because it is configured 
to be a seed node.
 WARN 23:15:33,112 Generated random token 
73932790073580646673058527716402832414. Random tokens will result in an 
unbalanced ring; see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
 INFO 23:15:33,160 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,161 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,364 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2-Data.db 
(163 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=768)
 INFO 23:15:33,366 Node vlap1/127.0.1.1 state jump to normal
 INFO 23:15:33,367 Bootstrap/Replace/Move completed! Now serving reads.
 INFO 23:15:33,368 Will not load MX4J, mx4j-tools.jar is not in the classpath
 INFO 23:15:33,408 Binding thrift service to vlap1/127.0.1.1:9160
 INFO 23:15:33,429 Using TFastFramedTransport with a max frame size of 15728640 
bytes.
 INFO 23:15:33,432 Using synchronous/threadpool thrift server on 
vlap1/127.0.1.1 : 9160
 INFO 23:15:33,433 Listening for thrift clients...






 INFO 23:16:16,665 Enqueuing flush of 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
 INFO 23:16:16,665 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
 INFO 23:16:16,944 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1-Data.db
 (246 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=1023)
 INFO 23:16:33,592 Enqueuing flush of 
Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 serialized/live bytes, 20 
ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,592 Writing Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 
serialized/live bytes, 20 ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,900 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1-Data.db
 (1257 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=2577)
 INFO 23:16:33,900 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 
serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,901 Writing Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 
serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
 INFO 23:16:34,101 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1-Data.db
 (330 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=2577)
ERROR 23:16:34,132 Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:373)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announce(MigrationManager.java:188)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announceNewColumnFamily(MigrationManager.java:139)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_add_column_family(CassandraServer.java:926)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3410)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3398)
        at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:32)
        at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:34)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:186)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:369)
        ... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        ... 3 more
ERROR 23:16:34,140 Exception in thread Thread[MigrationStage:1,5,main]
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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)






Upon a restart of the server another NPE is thrown:




david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
-XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M -Xmn32M 
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k
 INFO 23:17:51,158 Logging initialized
 INFO 23:17:51,163 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
 INFO 23:17:51,163 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
 INFO 23:17:51,163 Classpath: 
/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
 INFO 23:17:51,165 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
 INFO 23:17:51,187 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
 INFO 23:17:51,416 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode 
is mmap
 INFO 23:17:51,713 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
 INFO 23:17:52,131 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
 INFO 23:17:52,142 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
save all keys).
 INFO 23:17:52,143 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
 INFO 23:17:52,148 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
all keys).
 INFO 23:17:52,239 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1
 (1257 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,272 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1 (330 
bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,287 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1 
(246 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,291 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2 (163 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,297 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1 (235 bytes)
ERROR 23:17:52,500 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
david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ 



  was:
The following code has been working fine up to and including 1.0.x

public static String createIndexedColumnFamily(String cf){
    
    Cluster cluster = HectorConfig.cluster;
    ComparatorType ctName = 
ComparatorType.getByClassName(JNameComparator.class.getName());
    
    try{
      cluster.dropColumnFamily(HectorConfig.dfltKeyspaceName, cf );
    } catch (Exception e){}
  
    List<ColumnDefinition> cdL = new ArrayList<ColumnDefinition>();
    BasicColumnDefinition cd;
    
    cd = new BasicColumnDefinition();
    cd.setName(ss.toByteBuffer("id"));
    cd.setIndexName("id");
    cd.setIndexType(ColumnIndexType.KEYS);
    cd.setValidationClass(JValueComparator.class.getName());
    cdL.add(cd);
  }
}

With 1.1.3, cassandra throws the following error:


david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
-XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M -Xmn32M 
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k
 INFO 23:15:31,333 Logging initialized
 INFO 23:15:31,337 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
 INFO 23:15:31,338 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
 INFO 23:15:31,338 Classpath: 
/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
 INFO 23:15:31,340 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
 INFO 23:15:31,351 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
 INFO 23:15:31,566 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode 
is mmap
 INFO 23:15:31,875 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
 INFO 23:15:32,380 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
 INFO 23:15:32,394 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
save all keys).
 INFO 23:15:32,395 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
 INFO 23:15:32,400 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
all keys).
 INFO 23:15:32,661 Couldn't detect any schema definitions in local storage.
 INFO 23:15:32,665 Found table data in data directories. Consider using the CLI 
to define your schema.
 INFO 23:15:32,714 No commitlog files found; skipping replay
 INFO 23:15:32,740 Cassandra version: 1.1.2
 INFO 23:15:32,754 Thrift API version: 19.32.0
 INFO 23:15:32,763 CQL supported versions: 2.0.0,3.0.0-beta1 (default: 2.0.0)
 INFO 23:15:32,803 Loading persisted ring state
 INFO 23:15:32,807 Starting up server gossip
 INFO 23:15:32,821 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 
serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
 INFO 23:15:32,822 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 
serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,072 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1-Data.db 
(235 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=587)
 INFO 23:15:33,094 Starting Messaging Service on port 7000
 INFO 23:15:33,102 This node will not auto bootstrap because it is configured 
to be a seed node.
 WARN 23:15:33,112 Generated random token 
73932790073580646673058527716402832414. Random tokens will result in an 
unbalanced ring; see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
 INFO 23:15:33,160 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,161 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
 INFO 23:15:33,364 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2-Data.db 
(163 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=768)
 INFO 23:15:33,366 Node vlap1/127.0.1.1 state jump to normal
 INFO 23:15:33,367 Bootstrap/Replace/Move completed! Now serving reads.
 INFO 23:15:33,368 Will not load MX4J, mx4j-tools.jar is not in the classpath
 INFO 23:15:33,408 Binding thrift service to vlap1/127.0.1.1:9160
 INFO 23:15:33,429 Using TFastFramedTransport with a max frame size of 15728640 
bytes.
 INFO 23:15:33,432 Using synchronous/threadpool thrift server on 
vlap1/127.0.1.1 : 9160
 INFO 23:15:33,433 Listening for thrift clients...



 INFO 23:16:16,665 Enqueuing flush of 
Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
 INFO 23:16:16,665 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 
serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
 INFO 23:16:16,944 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1-Data.db
 (246 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=1023)
 INFO 23:16:33,592 Enqueuing flush of 
Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 serialized/live bytes, 20 
ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,592 Writing Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 
serialized/live bytes, 20 ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,900 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1-Data.db
 (1257 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=2577)
 INFO 23:16:33,900 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 
serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
 INFO 23:16:33,901 Writing Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 
serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
 INFO 23:16:34,101 Completed flushing 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1-Data.db
 (330 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
position=2577)
ERROR 23:16:34,132 Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:373)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announce(MigrationManager.java:188)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announceNewColumnFamily(MigrationManager.java:139)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_add_column_family(CassandraServer.java:926)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3410)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3398)
        at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:32)
        at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:34)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:186)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:369)
        ... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77)
        at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        ... 3 more
ERROR 23:16:34,140 Exception in thread Thread[MigrationStage:1,5,main]
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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
        at 
org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
        at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)



Upon a restart of the server another NPE is thrown:

david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
-XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M -Xmn32M 
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k
 INFO 23:17:51,158 Logging initialized
 INFO 23:17:51,163 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
 INFO 23:17:51,163 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
 INFO 23:17:51,163 Classpath: 
/etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
 INFO 23:17:51,165 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
 INFO 23:17:51,187 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
 INFO 23:17:51,416 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, indexAccessMode 
is mmap
 INFO 23:17:51,713 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
 INFO 23:17:52,131 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
 INFO 23:17:52,142 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
save all keys).
 INFO 23:17:52,143 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
 INFO 23:17:52,148 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
all keys).
 INFO 23:17:52,239 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1
 (1257 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,272 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1 (330 
bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,287 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1 
(246 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,291 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2 (163 bytes)
 INFO 23:17:52,297 Opening 
/var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1 (235 bytes)
ERROR 23:17:52,500 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
david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ 



    
> NPE on creating secondary index from Hector
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4496
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4496
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.2, 1.1.3
>         Environment: Ubuntu 12.4 
> Linux 3.2.0-27-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 6 14:25:57 UTC 2012 x86_64 
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> java version "1.7.0"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b147)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)
>            Reporter: David Semeria
>
> The following code has been working fine up to and including 1.0.x
> public static String createIndexedColumnFamily(String cf){
>     
>     Cluster cluster = HectorConfig.cluster;
>     ComparatorType ctName = 
> ComparatorType.getByClassName(JNameComparator.class.getName());
>     
>     try{
>       cluster.dropColumnFamily(HectorConfig.dfltKeyspaceName, cf );
>     } catch (Exception e){}
>   
>     List<ColumnDefinition> cdL = new ArrayList<ColumnDefinition>();
>     BasicColumnDefinition cd;
>     
>     cd = new BasicColumnDefinition();
>     cd.setName(ss.toByteBuffer("id"));
>     cd.setIndexName("id");
>     cd.setIndexType(ColumnIndexType.KEYS);
>     cd.setValidationClass(JValueComparator.class.getName());
>     cdL.add(cd);
>     ThriftCfDef cfd= new ThriftCfDef(HectorConfig.dfltKeyspaceName, cf, 
> ctName, cdL); 
>     cfd.setKeyValidationClass(ComparatorType.UTF8TYPE.getClassName());
>     cfd.setDefaultValidationClass(JValueComparator.class.getName());
>     cluster.addColumnFamily(cfd); 
>     
>     return "created: " + cf;
>   }
> }
> I'm inclined to exclude the presence of the custom comparator since:
> (1) there is no issue using it if the cf doesn't have a secondary index
> (2) the stack trace (see below) doesn't include the comparator 
> With 1.1.3, the above code cassandra throws the following error:
> david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
> xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
> -XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M 
> -Xmn32M -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k
>  INFO 23:15:31,333 Logging initialized
>  INFO 23:15:31,337 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
>  INFO 23:15:31,338 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
>  INFO 23:15:31,338 Classpath: 
> /etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
>  INFO 23:15:31,340 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
>  INFO 23:15:31,351 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
>  INFO 23:15:31,566 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, 
> indexAccessMode is mmap
>  INFO 23:15:31,875 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
>  INFO 23:15:32,380 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
>  INFO 23:15:32,394 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
> save all keys).
>  INFO 23:15:32,395 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
> org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
>  INFO 23:15:32,400 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
> all keys).
>  INFO 23:15:32,661 Couldn't detect any schema definitions in local storage.
>  INFO 23:15:32,665 Found table data in data directories. Consider using the 
> CLI to define your schema.
>  INFO 23:15:32,714 No commitlog files found; skipping replay
>  INFO 23:15:32,740 Cassandra version: 1.1.2
>  INFO 23:15:32,754 Thrift API version: 19.32.0
>  INFO 23:15:32,763 CQL supported versions: 2.0.0,3.0.0-beta1 (default: 2.0.0)
>  INFO 23:15:32,803 Loading persisted ring state
>  INFO 23:15:32,807 Starting up server gossip
>  INFO 23:15:32,821 Enqueuing flush of 
> Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
>  INFO 23:15:32,822 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@1473831778(163/203 
> serialized/live bytes, 3 ops)
>  INFO 23:15:33,072 Completed flushing 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1-Data.db 
> (235 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
> position=587)
>  INFO 23:15:33,094 Starting Messaging Service on port 7000
>  INFO 23:15:33,102 This node will not auto bootstrap because it is configured 
> to be a seed node.
>  WARN 23:15:33,112 Generated random token 
> 73932790073580646673058527716402832414. Random tokens will result in an 
> unbalanced ring; see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations
>  INFO 23:15:33,160 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
> serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
>  INFO 23:15:33,161 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@248801290(77/96 
> serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
>  INFO 23:15:33,364 Completed flushing 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2-Data.db 
> (163 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
> position=768)
>  INFO 23:15:33,366 Node vlap1/127.0.1.1 state jump to normal
>  INFO 23:15:33,367 Bootstrap/Replace/Move completed! Now serving reads.
>  INFO 23:15:33,368 Will not load MX4J, mx4j-tools.jar is not in the classpath
>  INFO 23:15:33,408 Binding thrift service to vlap1/127.0.1.1:9160
>  INFO 23:15:33,429 Using TFastFramedTransport with a max frame size of 
> 15728640 bytes.
>  INFO 23:15:33,432 Using synchronous/threadpool thrift server on 
> vlap1/127.0.1.1 : 9160
>  INFO 23:15:33,433 Listening for thrift clients...
>  INFO 23:16:16,665 Enqueuing flush of 
> Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
>  INFO 23:16:16,665 Writing Memtable-schema_keyspaces@1373026871(199/248 
> serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
>  INFO 23:16:16,944 Completed flushing 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1-Data.db
>  (246 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
> position=1023)
>  INFO 23:16:33,592 Enqueuing flush of 
> Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 serialized/live bytes, 20 
> ops)
>  INFO 23:16:33,592 Writing Memtable-schema_columnfamilies@341129413(1202/1502 
> serialized/live bytes, 20 ops)
>  INFO 23:16:33,900 Completed flushing 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1-Data.db
>  (1257 bytes) for commitlog position 
> ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, position=2577)
>  INFO 23:16:33,900 Enqueuing flush of 
> Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
>  INFO 23:16:33,901 Writing Memtable-schema_columns@43094749(283/353 
> serialized/live bytes, 5 ops)
>  INFO 23:16:34,101 Completed flushing 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1-Data.db
>  (330 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=126105713813993, 
> position=2577)
> ERROR 23:16:34,132 Error occurred during processing of message.
> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:373)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announce(MigrationManager.java:188)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announceNewColumnFamily(MigrationManager.java:139)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.system_add_column_family(CassandraServer.java:926)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3410)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$system_add_column_family.getResult(Cassandra.java:3398)
>       at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:32)
>       at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:34)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:186)
>       at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
>       at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
>       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
> Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:252)
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:111)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:369)
>       ... 11 more
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:124)
>       at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.getString(JdbcUTF8.java:77)
>       at org.apache.cassandra.cql.jdbc.JdbcUTF8.compose(JdbcUTF8.java:97)
>       at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.compose(UTF8Type.java:35)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
>       at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
>       ... 3 more
> ERROR 23:16:34,140 Exception in thread Thread[MigrationStage:1,5,main]
> 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.db.DefsTable.mergeColumnFamilies(DefsTable.java:359)
>       at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.mergeSchema(DefsTable.java:271)
>       at 
> org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager$1.call(MigrationManager.java:211)
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
>       at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
>       at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
>       at 
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
>       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
> Upon a restart of the server another NPE is thrown:
> david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ sudo bin/cassandra -f
> xss =  -ea -javaagent:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar 
> -XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms128M -Xmx128M 
> -Xmn32M -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss160k
>  INFO 23:17:51,158 Logging initialized
>  INFO 23:17:51,163 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0
>  INFO 23:17:51,163 Heap size: 130875392/130875392
>  INFO 23:17:51,163 Classpath: 
> /etc/cassandra:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/antlr-3.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/guava-r08.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/hector-core-1.0-3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jellyfish.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.2.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/stress.jar:/usr/share/cassandra/lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar
>  INFO 23:17:51,165 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
>  INFO 23:17:51,187 Loading settings from file:/etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
>  INFO 23:17:51,416 DiskAccessMode 'auto' determined to be mmap, 
> indexAccessMode is mmap
>  INFO 23:17:51,713 Global memtable threshold is enabled at 41MB
>  INFO 23:17:52,131 Initializing key cache with capacity of 6 MBs.
>  INFO 23:17:52,142 Scheduling key cache save to each 14400 seconds (going to 
> save all keys).
>  INFO 23:17:52,143 Initializing row cache with capacity of 0 MBs and provider 
> org.apache.cassandra.cache.SerializingCacheProvider
>  INFO 23:17:52,148 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save 
> all keys).
>  INFO 23:17:52,239 Opening 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-1
>  (1257 bytes)
>  INFO 23:17:52,272 Opening 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_columns/system-schema_columns-hd-1 (330 
> bytes)
>  INFO 23:17:52,287 Opening 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/schema_keyspaces/system-schema_keyspaces-hd-1 
> (246 bytes)
>  INFO 23:17:52,291 Opening 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-2 (163 
> bytes)
>  INFO 23:17:52,297 Opening 
> /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo/system-LocationInfo-hd-1 (235 
> bytes)
> ERROR 23:17:52,500 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
> david@vlap1:~/opt/cassandra$ 

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