[CASSANDRA-2190] Service fails to starts since mkdir /var/lib/cassandra fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.3
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: debian
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Eric Evans
• Reporter: Joaquin Casares

Authors

Eric Evans

• Created: 18/Feb/11 03:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 22/Feb/11 18:17

Description

After installing the debian and running 'sudo service cassandra start' I see this in the output.log:

Caused by: java.io.IOException: unable to mkdirs /var/lib/cassandra/data.

After running this workaround:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/cassandra
sudo chown cassandra:cassandra /var/lib/cassandra

The service starts.

On ami-cef405a7 in EC2. Ubuntu 10.10 (official release).