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

I had the same. Flowing steps helped me.

Remove cassandra $ apt-get remove cassandra

Update apt repos $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

Reinstall java $ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

Install cassandra again $ apt-get install cassandra

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