Cassandra cqlsh - connection refused

Question

I\'ve just started working with Cassandra (datastax), version 2.1.3 and cqlsh version 5.0.1.

Cassandra starts up fine and the cluster is operational instantly.

Answer 1

When I installed Cassandra 3.11.1, I came across this problem. I checked the /var/log/cassandra/cassandra.log and found this error Exception encountered during startup....It is a bug and already reported. The original post link https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14173.

The solution is to downgrade Cassandra to 3.0

1. download Cassandra rpm

curl -O https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/redhat/30x/cassandra-3.0.15-1.noarch.rpm

or

wget https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/redhat/30x/cassandra-3.0.15-1.noarch.rpm

2. rpm -ivh cassandra-3.0.15-1.noarch.rpm
3. service cassandra start
4. service cassandra status # check cassandra status

cassandra (pid 2322) is running...

5. cqlsh # start cassandra