[CASSANDRA-10649] Improve field-checking and error reporting in cassandra.yaml

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.6
• Component/s: Local/Config

Environment

Linux: Fedora-16 64 bit

• Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
• Reporter: sandeep thakur

Authors

Benjamin Lerer

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 04/Nov/15 07:11
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 06/Apr/16 14:44

Description

I am trying to setup cassandra single node cluster. i've downloaded below build:
apache-cassandra-2.1.11-bin.tar.gz
I've upgraded Java to 1.8 as well, as earlier it was throwing errors related to Java version.

[root@localhost cassandra]# java -version
java version "1.8.0_60"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)

I've also verified the cassandra.yaml file from "http://www.yamllint.com/" as well. But while starting cassandra, I am getting vague exception as below:

INFO  15:52:11 Compacting [SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-18-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-17-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-20-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-19-Data.db')]
INFO  15:52:11 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal
INFO  15:52:11 Netty using native Epoll event loop
ERROR 15:52:11 Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
        at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.run(Server.java:171) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11]
        at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.start(Server.java:117) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11]
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.start(CassandraDaemon.java:492) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11]
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:575) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11]
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:651) [apache-cassandra-2.1.11.jar:2.1.11]
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.run(Server.java:171)
        at org.apache.cassandra.transport.Server.start(Server.java:117)
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.start(CassandraDaemon.java:492)
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:575)
        at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:651)
Exception encountered during startup: null
INFO  15:52:11 Announcing shutdown
INFO  15:52:11 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal
INFO  15:52:11 Compacted 4 sstables to [/home/sandeep/bck_up/data/cassandra/data/system/local-7ad54392bcdd35a684174e047860b377/system-local-ka-21,].  11,427 bytes to 5,749 (~50% of original) in 199ms = 0.027551MB/s.  4 total partitions merged to 1.  Partition merge counts were {4:1, }
INFO  15:52:13 Waiting for messaging service to quiesce
INFO  15:52:13 MessagingService has terminated the accept() thread
[root@localhost server]#

I've also posted the issue on stack overflow as well:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33514745/cassandra-startup-failed-with-exception-exception-encountered-during-startup

Request some one to assist on this issue.