The last line in the log before the error was
INFO [main] 2010-10-01 11:18:06,654 SSTableReader.java (line 162) Sampling index for /local1/junkbox/cassandra/data/system/HintsColumnFamily-tmp-e-87-<>
There were several tmp files for the HintColumnFamily there. I moved them and it started.
I did run a nodetool drain before killing the node.
Aaron
Am upgrading from the 0.7.0 nightly build for 31/08 to the beta 2.I've deleted the Schema* CF's in the system Keyspace and when I start the new install I get this...java.lang.NullPointerExceptionat org.apache.cassandra.iosstable.IndexSummary.complete(IndexSummary.java:60)at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.load(SSTableReader.java:270)at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:173)at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.<init>(ColumnFamilyStore.java:157)at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:334)at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.createColumnFamilyStore(ColumnFamilyStore.java:322)at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.initCf(Table.java:301)at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:249)at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:102)at org.apache.cassandra.db.SystemTable.checkHealth(SystemTablejava:142)at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:99)at org.apache.cassandra.thriftCassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:54)at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:201)at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:133)Any thoughts ?Aaron
