With RHEL, there is a problem with snappy 1.0.5. You’d need to use 1.0.4.1 which works fine but you need to download it separately and put it in your lib directory. You can find the 1.0.4.1 file from https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/cassandra-1.1.12/lib
Jeremy On 29 Nov 2013, at 10:19, Nigel LEACH <nigel.le...@uk.bnpparibas.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm building a new cluster, and having problems starting Cassandra. > > RHEL 5.9 > Java 1.7 U40 > Cassandra 2.0.2 > > Previous clusters have started fine using the same methods, although the > envoronments are a little different (new RHEL, older Java). > > I am installing from DataStax tarball, and after making, I think, trivial > config changes for our environmnet, start things up with bin/cassandra. The > system log then shows this error > > INFO [Thread-2] 2013-11-29 09:43:02,434 ThriftServer.java (line 135) > Listening for thrift clients... > INFO [HANDSHAKE-/nn.nn.nn.nn] 2013-11-29 09:43:02,962 > OutboundTcpConnection.java (line 386) Handshaking version with / nn.nn.nn.nn > ERROR [WRITE-/ nn.nn.nn.nn] 2013-11-29 09:43:03,015 CassandraDaemon.java > (line 187) Exception in thread Thread[WRITE-/ nn.nn.nn.nn,5,main] > org.xerial.snappy.SnappyError: [FAILED_TO_LOAD_NATIVE_LIBRARY] null > at org.xerial.snappy.SnappyLoader.load(SnappyLoader.java:239) > at org.xerial.snappy.Snappy.<clinit>(Snappy.java:48) > at > org.xerial.snappy.SnappyOutputStream.<init>(SnappyOutputStream.java:79) > at > org.xerial.snappy.SnappyOutputStream.<init>(SnappyOutputStream.java:66) > at > org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.connect(OutboundTcpConnection.java:359) > at > org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.java:150) > > Following this, there seems no communication between nodes (nodetool only > shows the local node on each server). > > Any help very much appreciated. > Thanks, Nigel > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you > are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please > notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorised > copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is > prohibited. > > Please refer to http://www.bnpparibas.co.uk/en/email-disclaimer/ for > additional disclosures. >
