[CASSANDRA-1203] system_drop_keyspace can cause a node to be unstartable

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7 beta 1

Environment

Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573) / Darwin 10.3.0

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Gary Dusbabek
• Reporter: Mason Bryant

Authors

Gary Dusbabek

• Created: 17/Jun/10 21:28
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 01/Jul/10 16:52

Description

calling thriftClient_.system_drop_keyspace(keyspaceName) on a newly created keyspace, then stopping the node renders the node unstartable. Results in the following stacktrace:

10/06/17 14:23:16 ERROR thrift.CassandraDaemon: Fatal exception during initialization
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(DataInputStream.java:180)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(DataInputStream.java:592)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(DataInputStream.java:547)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.KSMetaData.deserialize(KSMetaData.java:92)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.DefsTable.loadFromStorage(DefsTable.java:75)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadSchemas(DatabaseDescriptor.java:422)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:103)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:90)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:221)

my repro:

start new node with empty data directory
create a new keyspace
drop the keyspace
attempt to restart the node, notice that it fails to start.