Cassandra starting issue

Question

I have problems starting Cassandra. The follow is my terminal output when I try to issue a start command:

root@gestion:~# cassandra -f
Exception in

Answer 1

Actually the issue is that cassandra could not start up as it is not finding the file named "log4j-server.properties" in its configuration directory, to resolve the issue you have there, no need to reinstall it again but instead simply do the following to resolve the issue:

1) Download the tarball file from here.

2) Extract it:

$ tar -xzvf apache-cassandra-1.2.5.tar.bin.gz 

3) Check where is the configuration path of cassandra. you could get the config path from file named "/usr/share/cassandra/cassandra.in.sh", check out the key named "CASSANDRA_CONF".

$ gedit /usr/share/cassandra/cassandra.in.sh

4) copy the missing files manually from the extracted package (step 2) from a directory named "conf"

$ sudo cp extracted_cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml /etc/cassandra

$ sudo cp extracted_cassandra/conf/log4j-server.properties /etc/cassandra

Hints:

For more info. how to install cassandra debian package, check this For more info. how to install cassandra from their repository, check this

If you want to re-install it, simply you could do the following:

$ sudo apt-get remove cassandra 

$ sudo apt-get install cassandra