cassandra cql shell window got disappears after installation in windows? this was installed using MSI installer availalbe in planet cassandra.
Why this happens ? please
Goto C:\Program Files\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\logs\debug.log
and find the error.
like I facing was same issue, I checked the logs and there was an error
ERROR [main] 2018-01-16 14:54:49,359 JVMStabilityInspector.java:82 - Exiting due to error while processing commit log during initialization.
org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogReplayer$CommitLogReplayException: Could not read commit log descriptor in file C:\Program Files\DataStax Community\data\commitlog\CommitLog-6-1516029298188.log
i've deleted the the all log files and started server from below location
"C:\Program Files\DataStax Community\apache-cassandra\bin\cassandra.bat"
once your server is up and running now you can open Cassandra CQL Shell