Hi Dwight, I can confirm that issue on my MBP under Mountain Lion.
Can you create a ticker at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA and include the platform you are running on. For reference the change was added by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4447 The change is only relevant if you are running on Java 7. As a work around change the relevant section of cassandra-env.sh to look like #startswith () [ "${1#$2}" != "$1" ] if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" ] ; then # reduce the per-thread stack size to minimize the impact of Thrift # thread-per-client. (Best practice is for client connections to # be pooled anyway.) Only do so on Linux where it is known to be # supported. #if startswith "$JVM_VERSION" '1.7.' #then # JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss160k" #else JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss128k" #fi fi Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 13/08/2012, at 5:16 PM, Dwight Smith <dwight.sm...@genesyslab.com> wrote: > Installed 1.1.3 on my Linux cluster – the JVM_OPTS were truncated due to a > script error in Cassandra-env.sh: > > Invalid token in the following. > > startswith () [ "${1#$2}" != "$1" ] >