What version of cassandra and what OS ? It sort of looks like it tried to delete a secondary in CF that was defined in the system KS.
Turn the logging up to DEBUG and see what happens. Hope that helps. Aaron ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 1/01/2012, at 11:20 PM, Michael Vaknine wrote: > Hi, > > > > During restart cassandra not is failing to start > > The error is > > ERROR [main] 2012-01-01 05:03:42,903 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 354) > Exception encountered during startup > > java.lang.AssertionError: attempted to delete non-existing file > AttractionUserIdx.AttractionUserIdx_09partition_idx-h-1-Data.db > > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:49) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.deleteWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:44) > > at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTable.delete(SSTable.java:133) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyS > tore.java:355) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyS > tore.java:402) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandra > Daemon.java:174) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassan > draDaemon.java:337) > > at > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:107) > > > > can someone tell me how to recover from that > > thanks > > > > Michael >