Can you provide the full error stack, it will show where it failed when starting up.
AFAIK this i the correct process. I just did a quick test on a singe 0.7 node and it could start up after removing the locations SSTables. If you go ahead with removing all the system sstables you can re-recreate the schema and it will pickup the existing files. Also be aware that the initial token will be lost unless it is in the conf file. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 10 May 2011, at 15:57, Shaun Newman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to rename my cluster which has several keyspaces running on > cassandra 0.7.5. When I try to remove the system files as suggested by > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#clustername_mismatch , I get "Could not > read system table. Did you change partitioners?" error. If I remove all the > system files, the cluster does boot up well but I loose the schema's of all > CFs. > > Am I missing something or is this a bug. Can anyone suggest what would be the > right approach? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Shaun > >
