I’m running into the exact issue as described here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4363 but with Cassandra 1.1.2, cqlsh –cql3.
When I try to create a column family, the error I get is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./cqlsh", line 1008, in perform_statement
self.cursor.execute(statement, decoder=decoder)
File "./../lib/cql-internal-only-1.0.10.zip/cql-1.0.10/cql/cursor.py", line 117, in execute
response = self.handle_cql_execution_errors(doquery, prepared_q, compress)
File "./../lib/cql-internal-only-1.0.10.zip/cql-1.0.10/cql/cursor.py", line 132, in handle_cql_execution_errors
return executor(*args, **kwargs)
File "./../lib/cql-internal-only-1.0.10.zip/cql-1.0.10/cql/cassandra/Cassandra.py", line 1583, in execute_cql_query
self.send_execute_cql_query(query, compression)
File "./../lib/cql-internal-only-1.0.10.zip/cql-1.0.10/cql/cassandra/Cassandra.py", line 1593, in send_execute_cql_query
self._oprot.trans.flush()
File "./../lib/thrift-python-internal-only-0.7.0.zip/thrift/transport/TTransport.py", line 293, in flush
self.__trans.write(buf)
File "./../lib/thrift-python-internal-only-0.7.0.zip/thrift/transport/TSocket.py", line 117, in write
plus = self.handle.send(buff)
error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
and sometimes I simply get TSocket read 0 bytes.
The server side log is also the same as mentioned in the JIRA ticket.
ERROR [Thrift:12] 2012-09-05 12:06:10,999 CustomTThreadPoolServer.java (line 204) Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:373)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announce(MigrationManager.java:188)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.MigrationManager.announceNewColumnFamily(MigrationManager.java:139)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.statements.CreateColumnFamilyStatement.announceMigration(CreateColumnFamilyStatement.java:83)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.statements.SchemaAlteringStatement.execute(SchemaAlteringStatement.java:99)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.QueryProcessor.processStatement(QueryProcessor.java:108)
at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.QueryProcessor.process(QueryProcessor.java:121)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.execute_cql_query(CassandraServer.java:1237)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$execute_cql_query.getResult(Cassandra.java:3542)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$execute_cql_query.getResult(Cassandra.java:3530)
at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:32)
at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:34)
at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:186)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:222)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.waitOnFuture(FBUtilities.java:369)
... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.string(ByteBufferUtil.java:167)
I tried deleting /var/lib/cassandra directory and restarting the server. I still get the error.
This bug in JIRA has been marked as Cannot Reproduce, Fixed version None.
So what do I do to get my cassandra working again?
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4526 suggests that this was fixed in 1.1.3. I’d upgrade (to 1.1.4, the most recent release).