>> i am seeing several different exceptions across my 8 node cluster. >> running 0.7 RC2. the following are all from one node. is this a known >> issue? > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1860
So in short - upgrade to the latest 0.7 branch or wait for rc3 (or incorporate the patch from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1847, of which the above turned out to be a dupe). -- / Peter Schuller