[CASSANDRA-10943] NullPointer during LegacySchemaMigrator

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.5, 3.5

Environment

Debian Jessie
java version "1.8.0_66"
Cassandra 2.2.4 -> 3.1.1 migration

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
• Reporter: Stephan Wienczny

Authors

Aleksey Yeschenko

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 26/Dec/15 22:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 01/Apr/16 18:23

Description

I'm trying to upgrade my Cassandra cluster from 2.2.4 to 3.1.1.

I used

nodetool upgradesstables
nodetool drain

before upgrading.

The result is this:

INFO [main] 2015-12-26 22:41:44,114 SystemKeyspace.java:1284 - Detected version upgrade from 2.2.4 to 3.1.1, snapshotting system keyspace
WARN [main] 2015-12-26 22:41:44,318 CompressionParams.java:382 - The sstable_compression option has been deprecated. You should use class instead
ERROR [main] 2015-12-26 22:41:44,427 CassandraDaemon.java:690 - Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.apache.cassandra.serializers.BooleanSerializer.deserialize(BooleanSerializer.java:33) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.serializers.BooleanSerializer.deserialize(BooleanSerializer.java:24) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractType.compose(AbstractType.java:114) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.UntypedResultSet$Row.getBoolean(UntypedResultSet.java:272) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.decodeTableMetadata(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:264) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.readTableMetadata(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:250) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.readTable(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:221) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.lambda$readTables$218(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:214) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.readTables(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:214) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.readKeyspace(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:163) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.lambda$readSchema$215(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:154) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.readSchema(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:154) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.schema.LegacySchemaMigrator.migrate(LegacySchemaMigrator.java:77) ~[apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:223) [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:549) [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:677) [apache-cassandra-3.1.1.jar:3.1.1]