Cannot start Cassandra db using bin/cassandra

Question

I have Ubuntu 12.04 with cassandra 1.1.3 (tarball installation), When I try to start cassandra, I get the following:

user@ubuntu:~/apache-cassandra-1.1.3/bin         


        

Answer 1

This is most likely caused by attempting to run under OpenJDK 1.6, which causes a segmentation fault under Ubuntu/Debian. The seg fault is hidden because of the way the shell script executes the process. You can test for this problem by modifying $CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/cassandra as follows:

Change this line:

exec $NUMACTL "$JAVA" $JVM_OPTS $cassandra_parms -cp "$CLASSPATH" $props "$class"

to this:

echo $NUMACTL "$JAVA" $JVM_OPTS $cassandra_parms -cp "$CLASSPATH" $props "$class"

Then run bin/cassandra -f and copy the resulting java command. Run this directly to see if it produces the segmentation fault. If this is your problem, you need to switch to the Sun or IBM JDK, or alternatively you can upgrade to OpenJDK 1.7.