[CASSANDRA-13897] nodetool compact and flush fail with "error: null"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.2
• Component/s: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths

Environment

• Apache Cassandra 3.11.0
• Linux 4.4.0-92-generic #115-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 10 09:04:33 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• jdk1.8.0_144

• Severity: Low
• Since Version: 3.11.0
• Assignee: Stefania Alborghetti
• Reporter: Jacob Rhoden

Authors

Stefania Alborghetti

Reviewers

Robert Stupp

• Created: 23/Sep/17 07:57
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:29
• Resolved: 23/Oct/17 02:05

Description

nodetool flush and nodetool compact return an error message that is not clear. This could probably be improved. Both of my two nodes return this error.

nodetool flush Will return this error the first 2-3 times you invoke it, then the error temporarily disappears. nodetool compress always returns this error message no matter how many times you invoke it.

I have tried deleting saved_caches, commit logs, doing nodetool compact/rebuild/scrub, and nothing seems to remove the error.

cass@s5:~/apache-cassandra-3.11.0$ nodetool compact
error: null
-- StackTrace --
java.lang.AssertionError
	at org.apache.cassandra.cache.ChunkCache$CachingRebufferer.<init>(ChunkCache.java:222)
	at org.apache.cassandra.cache.ChunkCache.wrap(ChunkCache.java:175)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.maybeCached(FileHandle.java:412)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.complete(FileHandle.java:381)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.complete(FileHandle.java:331)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.big.BigTableWriter.openFinal(BigTableWriter.java:333)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.big.BigTableWriter.openFinalEarly(BigTableWriter.java:318)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.switchWriter(SSTableRewriter.java:322)
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.doPrepare(SSTableRewriter.java:370)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.doPrepare(CompactionAwareWriter.java:111)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.finish(Transactional.java:184)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.finish(CompactionAwareWriter.java:121)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.runMayThrow(CompactionTask.java:220)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.executeInternal(CompactionTask.java:85)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionTask.execute(AbstractCompactionTask.java:61)
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$10.runMayThrow(CompactionManager.java:733)
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory.lambda$threadLocalDeallocator$0(NamedThreadFactory.java:81)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-14147 AssertionError on MemtablePostFlush