http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassanda-comm-ed-12-wont-start-after-modifying-cassandrayaml Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:25:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassanda-comm-ed-12-wont-start-after-modifying-cassandrayaml#post-8848 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:26:31 +0000 philip.fielder_bhnetwork.com 8848@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Env<br /> AWS EC2 m1.small<br /> CentOS 5.98</p> <p>Java<br /> java version "1.6.0_37"<br /> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06)<br /> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01, mixed mode)<br /> INFO 10:49:08,689 JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.6.0_37</p> <p>Install Action<br /> # yum install dsc12</p> <p>Nodes: 2</p> <p>The cluster was running after initial installation/cfg. I stopped both nodes to make changes to the cassandra.yaml (e.g. cluster_name, endpoint_snitch). Per the instructions, i did a rm -rf /var/lib/cassandra/* to purge the existing data. Now the seed node won't start. From /var/log/cassandra/cassandra.log<br /> INFO 10:49:11,788 Scheduling row cache save to each 0 seconds (going to save all keys).<br /> ERROR 10:49:11,842 Stopping the gossiper and the RPC server<br /> ERROR 10:49:11,843 Exception encountered during startup<br /> java.lang.IllegalStateException: No configured daemon<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.stopRPCServer(StorageService.java:314)<br /> [...]</p> <p>I reverted back to the last known good version of cassandra.yaml and the seed node still won't start. fwiw, there is nothing in /var/lib/cassandra/*, which is probably ok, since the node did not fully start.<br /> What daemon did not start?<br /> Do i just need to remove/reinstall using yum?<br /> Thanks,<br /> phil </p>