Sounds like you told Cassandra a key? column? was UTF8 but it had non-UTF8 data in it.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Anthony Ikeda <anthony.ikeda....@gmail.com> wrote: > I can't seem to export an sstable. The parameter flags don't work either > (using -k and -f). > > sstable2json > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation/ServerIdentityProfiles-g-3-Data.db > WARN 12:01:55,721 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > { > "6c6f63616c686f7374": [Exception in thread "main" > org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: invalid UTF8 bytes > 4e694de2 > at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.getString(UTF8Type.java:59) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.serializeColumn(SSTableExport.java:130) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.serializeColumns(SSTableExport.java:105) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.serializeRow(SSTableExport.java:191) > at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:313) > at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:335) > at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:348) > at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.main(SSTableExport.java:406) > WARN 12:01:56,321 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,328 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,337 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,343 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,349 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,357 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,367 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,373 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,382 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,386 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,404 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,411 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,419 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,424 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,431 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,435 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,442 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,447 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,453 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. > WARN 12:01:56,458 Invalid file '.DS_Store' in data directory > /Users/XXXXX/Database/cassandra_files/data/RegistryFoundation. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com