Robbie Strickland created CASSANDRA-5196: --------------------------------------------
Summary: Uninformative exception thrown when running new installation with old data directories Key: CASSANDRA-5196 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5196 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Core Affects Versions: 1.2.1 Environment: CentOS 5.5 Reporter: Robbie Strickland Priority: Minor If you install 1.2.1 when there are existing data directories, the scrub operation fails, throwing this exception: ERROR [main] 2013-01-29 15:05:06,564 FileUtils.java (line 373) Stopping the gossiper and the RPC server ERROR [main] 2013-01-29 15:05:06,564 CassandraDaemon.java (line 387) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.IllegalStateException: No configured daemon at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.stopRPCServer(StorageService.java:314) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.handleFSError(FileUtils.java:375) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Directories.<init>(Directories.java:113) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Directories.create(Directories.java:91) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyStore.java:403) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:174) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:370) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:413) This condition produce a more reasonable exception. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira