I am trying to connect to cassandra. I installed the latest stable version that is apache-cassandra-1.2.4 and extracted it on my desktop. As I run cassandra it sets up nicely listening for thrift client and displaying following :
sudo cassandra -f
log :
INFO 15:30:34,646 Cassandra version: 1.0.12
INFO 15:30:34,646 Thrift API version: 19.20.0
INFO 15:30:34,646 Loading persisted ring state
INFO 15:30:34,650 Starting up server gossip
INFO 15:30:34,661 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@1117603949(29/36 serialized/live bytes, 1 ops)
INFO 15:30:34,661 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@1117603949(29/36 serialized/live bytes, 1 ops)
INFO 15:30:34,877 Completed flushing /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-hd-54-Data.db (80 bytes)
INFO 15:30:34,892 Starting Messaging Service on port 7000
INFO 15:30:34,901 Using saved token 143186062733850112297005303551620336860
INFO 15:30:34,903 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-LocationInfo@1282534304(53/66 serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
INFO 15:30:34,904 Writing Memtable-LocationInfo@1282534304(53/66 serialized/live bytes, 2 ops)
INFO 15:30:35,102 Completed flushing /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-hd-55-Data.db (163 bytes)
INFO 15:30:35,106 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal
INFO 15:30:35,107 Bootstrap/Replace/Move completed! Now serving reads.
INFO 15:30:35,108 Will not load MX4J, mx4j-tools.jar is not in the classpath
INFO 15:30:35,150 Binding thrift service to localhost/127.0.0.1:9160
INFO 15:30:35,155 Using TFastFramedTransport with a max frame size of 15728640 bytes.
INFO 15:30:35,160 Using synchronous/threadpool thrift server on localhost/127.0.0.1 : 9160
INFO 15:30:35,168 Listening for thrift clients...
Now as I run : cassandra-cli -h localhost -p 9160, it throws up the error. I have checked for the port to be free and cassandra is listening at the port. :
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org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:183)
at org.apache.thrift.transport.TFramedTransport.open(TFramedTransport.java:81)
at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.connect(CliMain.java:80)
at org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.main(CliMain.java:256)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:391)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
at org.apache.thrift.transport.TSocket.open(TSocket.java:178)
... 3 more
Exception connecting to localhost/9160. Reason: Connection refused.
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