[CASSANDRA-7508] nodetool prints error if dirs don't exist.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.10, 2.1 rc4
• Component/s: Tool/nodetool
• Severity: Low
• Since Version: 2.1 rc2
• Assignee: Tom Hobbs
• Reporter: Jeremiah Jordan

Authors

Tom Hobbs

Reviewers

Jeremiah Jordan

• Created: 07/Jul/14 22:03
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 15/Jul/14 23:24

Description

The new directory stuff blows up nodetool if its not there. Like if I run nodetool from an different untar of the rc2 tar.gz.

apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2/bin $ ./nodetool ring
Note: Ownership information does not include topology; for complete information, specify a keyspace

Datacenter: Analytics
==========
Address    Rack        Status State   Load            Owns                Token

127.0.0.1  rack1       Up     Normal  57.88 KB        100.00%             3647214374146654083

ERROR 21:59:30 Fatal configuration error
org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: commitlog_directory is missing and -Dcassandra.storagedir is not set
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.applyConfig(DatabaseDescriptor.java:461) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2.jar:2.1.0-rc2]
	at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:129) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2.jar:2.1.0-rc2]
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool$Ring.execute(NodeTool.java:464) [apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2.jar:2.1.0-rc2]
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool$NodeToolCmd.run(NodeTool.java:245) [apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2.jar:2.1.0-rc2]
	at org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeTool.main(NodeTool.java:159) [apache-cassandra-2.1.0-rc2.jar:2.1.0-rc2]
commitlog_directory is missing and -Dcassandra.storagedir is not set
Fatal configuration error; unable to start. See log for stack trace.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-7710 nodetool ring throws exception if run on machine without Cassandra