[CASSANDRA-1274] Exception while recovering commitlog when debug logging enabled

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.4
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Matthew F. Dennis
• Reporter: Johan Oskarsson

Authors

Matthew F. Dennis

• Created: 13/Jul/10 17:10
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 27/Jul/10 12:46

Description

On a cluster with debug logging enabled the commit log fails to recover on start. An UTF8 exception is thrown when trying to toString a column from the system column family LocationInfo. That CF is using UTF8Type but I suspect the column name in this specific case is a byte representation of an ip address, and as such not a valid UTF8 string. That column is most perhaps created in SystemTable line 74.

Full exception stack trace:
ERROR [main] 2010-07-13 11:03:17,050 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 107) Exception encountered during startup.
org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: invalid UTF8 bytes [10, -48, 40, -124]
at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.UTF8Type.getString(UTF8Type.java:43)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Column.getString(Column.java:200)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.AbstractType.getColumnsString(AbstractType.java:85)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamily.toString(ColumnFamily.java:393)
at org.apache.commons.lang.ObjectUtils.toString(ObjectUtils.java:241)
at org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.join(StringUtils.java:3073)
at org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.join(StringUtils.java:3133)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:250)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLog.recover(CommitLog.java:171)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:120)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:90)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:221)