On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:40 PM, John Sanda <jsanda@redhat.com> wrote:

The QUORUM level query is done by Cassandra at start up when it checks to see whether or not it needs to create the default super user. What errors did you hit when you tried installing/upgrading with all three nodes running? You will need to go through the upgrade process for each node. Since multi-node support was incomplete in 4.8, the easiest/safest thing to do might be to decommission two of the nodes (using nodetool) and get through the upgrade with a single node. Then go back and re-deploy the additional nodes.

I did the decommission, but it seems like it's in a bad state now:

19:19:05,229 ERROR [org.rhq.storage.installer.StorageInstaller] The storage node reported the following errors while trying to start:

java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ConfigurationException: Cannot add column family 'users' to non existing keyspace 'system_auth'.

at org.apache.cassandra.cql3.QueryProcessor.process(QueryProcessor.java:127)

at org.apache.cassandra.auth.Auth.setupUsersTable(Auth.java:195)

at org.apache.cassandra.auth.Auth.setup(Auth.java:129)

at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:810)

at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:554)

at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:451)

at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:348)

I'm just going to toss it all out and start fresh. Thanks for your help.