[CASSANDRA-4294] Upgrading encounters: 'SimpleStrategy requires a replication_factor strategy option.' and refuses to start

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.1
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Sylvain Lebresne

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 29/May/12 19:48
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 01/Jun/12 15:41

Description

I've seen this reported quite a few times now:

ERROR [main] 2012-05-29 19:33:40,589 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 370) Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: SimpleStrategy requires a replication_factor strategy option.
  at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:275)
  at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:114)
  at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.open(Table.java:97)
  at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:204)
  at org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:353)
  at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:106)
Caused by: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: SimpleStrategy requires a replication_factor strategy option.
  at org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy.validateOptions(SimpleStrategy.java:71)
  at org.apache.cassandra.locator.AbstractReplicationStrategy.createReplicationStrategy(AbstractReplicationStrategy.java:218)
  at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.createReplicationStrategy(Table.java:295)
  at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.<init>(Table.java:271)
  ... 5 more

The common thread seems to be old lineage, from at least 0.7. 1.0.x works fine, but upgrading to 1.1 causes the problem.