Try upgrading to 1.2.2. There was streaming bug that could cause bootstrap to fail.
On Friday, March 15, 2013, Daning Wang wrote: > I tried to add new node to ring, it is supposed to be fast in 1.2(256 > tokens on each node), but it is 8+ hours now. after showing bootstraping, > now cpu usage is very low, I turned on debug, it shows applying mutation. > is that normal? > > INFO [main] 2013-03-15 08:36:44,530 StorageService.java (line 853) > JOINING: Starting to bootstrap... > ... > > DEBUG [MutationStage:600] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,286 > RowMutationVerbHandler.java (line 40) Applying mutation > DEBUG [MutationStage:601] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,523 > RowMutationVerbHandler.java (line 40) Applying mutation > DEBUG [MutationStage:601] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,525 > AbstractSimplePerColumnSecondaryIndex.java (line 118) applying index row > monago-martires.blogspot.com in > ColumnFamily(dsatcache.dsatcache_top_node_idx > [97f154dd18d1ab2e:false:0@1363383153612004,]) > DEBUG [MutationStage:603] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,525 > RowMutationVerbHandler.java (line 40) Applying mutation > DEBUG [MutationStage:602] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,643 > RowMutationVerbHandler.java (line 40) Applying mutation > DEBUG [MutationStage:602] 2013-03-15 14:32:33,643 > AbstractSimplePerColumnSecondaryIndex.java (line 118) applying index row > us.countryproducts.safestchina.com > > Thanks, > > Daning > -- Yuki Morishita t:yukim (http://twitter.com/yukim)