hey Anuj, Ok I will try that next time, so you are saying since i am replacing the machine in place(trying to get the same machine back in cluster) which already has some data, I dont clean the commitlogs/data directories and set auto_bootstrap = false and then restart the node, followed by repair on this machine right ?
thanks anishek On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Anuj Wadehra <anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Hi Abhishek, > > In my opinion, you already have data and bootstrapping is not needed here. > You can set auto_bootstrap to false in Cassandra.yaml and once the > cassandra is rebooted, you should run repair to fix the inconsistent data. > > > Thanks > Anuj > > > > On Monday, 16 November 2015 10:34 PM, Josh Smith < > josh.sm...@careerbuilder.com> wrote: > > > Sis you set the JVM_OPTS to replace address? That is usually the error I > get when I forget to set the replace_address on Cassandra-env. > > JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Dcassandra.replace_address=address_of_dead_node > > > *From:* Anishek Agarwal [mailto:anis...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2015 9:25 AM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: handling down node cassandra 2.0.15 > > nope its not > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:48 PM, sai krishnam raju potturi < > pskraj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is that a seed node? > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 05:21 Anishek Agarwal <anis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are having a 3 node cluster and one of the node went down due to a > hardware memory failure looks like. We followed the steps below after the > node was down for more than the default value of *max_hint_window_in_ms* > > I tried to restart cassandra by following the steps @ > > > 1. > > http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html > 2. > > http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2014-03-12/replace-a-dead-node-in-cassandra.html > > *except the "clear data" part as it was not specified in second blog > above.* > > i was trying to restart the same node that went down, however I did not > get the messages in log files as stated in 2 against "StorageService" > > instead it just tried to replay and then stopped with the error message as > below: > > *ERROR [main] 2015-11-16 15:27:22,944 CassandraDaemon.java (line 584) > Exception encountered during startup* > *java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot replace address with a node that is > already bootstrapped* > > Can someone please help me if there is something i am doing wrong here. > > Thanks for the help in advance. > > Regards, > Anishek > > > > >
