[CASSANDRA-824] Unable to start Cassandra in windows if P drive exsists

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Labels: Missing-Class P-Drive win32 windows wont-start

Environment

This problem should affect any version of windows with a P drive.

• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Gary Dusbabek
• Reporter: Kaz Walker

Authors

Gary Dusbabek

• Created: 23/Feb/10 22:02
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 24/Feb/10 15:40

Description

When running bin\cassandra.bat from main dir, Cassandra exits with:
Invalid parameter - P:
Starting Cassandra Server
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8888
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/cassandra/service/CassandraDaemon
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon. Program will exit.