[CASSANDRA-12607] The cassandra commit log corrupted by restart even if no write operations in hours

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.x

Environment

windows 10, 16 gb

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mattias W
• Created: 03/Sep/16 07:52
• Updated: 21/Mar/23 20:39
• Resolved: 21/Mar/23 20:39

Description

This is the 3rd time my commitlog is corrupted, and the server refuses to start. What worries me is that I get these error issues even if no update were made to the database.

The last time, the computer were restarted by Windows update, and I detected the problem immediately.

The problems is solved by deleting the commitlog files (ok on my development system)

My config says that commitlog are synced every 10s seconds, so how can a file be corrupt unless a crash occurs within these 10 seconds?

Is this a Cassandra bug? Or by design, i.e. bad design?

I am using 3.4 on Windows 10, Datastax installer.

In the stdout log, the last part is

INFO 06:17:39 Replaying C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471353812251.log, C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471353812252.log, C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471411951134.log, C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471454506802.log, C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471532812678.log
ERROR 06:17:39 Exiting due to error while processing commit log during initialization.
org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer$CommitLogReplayException: Could not read commit log descriptor in file C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1471353812252.log
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.handleReplayError(CommitLogReplayer.java:611) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:373) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer.recover(CommitLogReplayer.java:236) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:192) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:172) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:283) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:551) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:680) [apache-cassandra-3.4.0.jar:3.4.0]

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-15961 Reference CASSANDRA-12607