I rebuilt and redeployed the packages locally, apart from the necessary modification to /etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh (which is fixed in trunk) the packages now work properly.
Regards, - pyr On mar., 2011-04-26 at 11:47 -0500, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2549 is open to fix this > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Pierre-Yves Ritschard > <p...@milestonelab.com> wrote: > > > > On ven., 2011-04-22 at 16:49 -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > >> I am pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra 0.8.0 beta1. > >> > > > > Hi, > > > > First of all thanks for this release, here are a few annoyances I > > spotted while trying it out the published debian packages: > > > > The cassandra-env.sh is ran by /bin/sh and uses constructs not available > > in plain sh. this is fixed in 76fa3204 by Jonathan Ellis > > > > Starting the daemon provided in the Debian package will constantly fail > > due to thrift exception classes not being found. This stems from the > > fact that the generated thrift classes are not included in the jar > > available in the Debian package, comparing the 0.7.3 package and the > > 0.8.0-beta1 reveals the following difference: > > > > On 0.7.3: > > #unzip -l /usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar | grep > > InvalidRequestException.class > > 1426 2011-03-11 18:23 > > org/apache/cassandra/avro/InvalidRequestException.class > > 8752 2011-03-11 18:23 > > org/apache/cassandra/thrift/InvalidRequestException.class > > > > On 0.8.0-beta1: > > # unzip -l /usr/share/cassandra/apache-cassandra.jar | grep > > InvalidRequestException.class > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > - pyr > > > > > > >
