I'm getting a org.xerial.snappy.SnappyError when creating my first column family after blowing away my Cassandra installation and trying to run the latest release. I'm undoubtably making some silly mistake but cannot seem to find it. I even commented out my "sstable_compression=SnappyCompressor" settings.
InvalidRequestException(why:SnappyCompressor.create() threw an error: org.xerial.snappy.SnappyError [FAILED_TO_LOAD_NATIVE_LIBRARY] null) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$system_add_column_family_result.read(Cassandra.java:27683) at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.receiveBase(TServiceClient.java:78) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.recv_system_add_column_family(Cassandra.java:1193) at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Client.system_add_column_family(Cassandra.java:1180) at org.scale7.cassandra.pelops.ColumnFamilyManager$2.execute(ColumnFamilyManager.java:64) at org.scale7.cassandra.pelops.ColumnFamilyManager$2.execute(ColumnFamilyManager.java:61) at org.scale7.cassandra.pelops.ManagerOperand.tryOperation(ManagerOperand.java:131) at org.scale7.cassandra.pelops.ColumnFamilyManager.addColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyManager.java:67) .... Worth noting is I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.4 and I recently upgraded to the latest JDK (really hoping this isn't the issue): java version "1.7.0_04" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_04-b21) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.0-b21, mixed mode) When Cassandra starts up with blown away lib/log dirs, I can see the Snappy in the classpath, but it says "Native methods will be disabled" despite having JNA. I've got the latest JNA installed at /usr/share/java/jna.jar and symbolic linked at /opt/apache-cassandra-1.1.0/lib/jna.jar. INFO 12:18:59,430 Logging initialized INFO 12:18:59,434 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.7.0_04 .... INFO 12:18:59,435 Classpath: bin/../conf:bin/../build/classes/main:bin/../build/classes/thrift:bin/../lib/antlr-3.2.jar:bin/../lib/apache-cassandra-1.1.0.jar:bin/../lib/apache-cassandra-clientutil-1.1.0.jar:bin/../lib/apache-cassandra-thrift-1.1.0.jar:bin/../lib/avro-1.4.0-fixes.jar:bin/../lib/avro-1.4.0-sources-fixes.jar:bin/../lib/commons-cli-1.1.jar:bin/../lib/commons-codec-1.2.jar:bin/../lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar:bin/../lib/compress-lzf-0.8.4.jar:bin/../lib/concurrentlinkedhashmap-lru-1.2.jar:bin/../lib/guava-r08.jar:bin/../lib/high-scale-lib-1.1.2.jar:bin/../lib/jackson-core-asl-1.9.2.jar:bin/../lib/jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.2.jar:bin/../lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar:bin/../lib/jline-0.9.94.jar:bin/../lib/jna.jar:bin/../lib/json-simple-1.1.jar:bin/../lib/libthrift-0.7.0.jar:bin/../lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar:bin/../lib/metrics-core-2.0.3.jar:bin/../lib/platform.jar:bin/../lib/servlet-api-2.5-20081211.jar:bin/../lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:bin/../lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar:bin/../lib/snakeyaml-1.6.jar:bin/../lib/snappy-java-1.0.4.1.jar:bin/../lib/snaptree-0.1.jar:bin/../lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar INFO 12:18:59,710 Unable to link C library. Native methods will be disabled. .... INFO 12:19:00,529 Cassandra version: 1.1.0
