I am using DSE 3.1.0-1 packaged install. I am not able to connect to my cluster using cassandra-cli. cqlsh works fine.
using cassandra-cli
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admin@ip-XX-XX-XX-XX:/usr/bin$ cassandra-cli -host ip-XX-XX-XX-XX.ec2.internal -port 9160
ERROR 18:15:52,051 Error in ThreadPoolExecutor
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService
at org.apache.cassandra.locator.DynamicEndpointSnitch.updateScores(DynamicEndpointSnitch.java:219)
at org.apache.cassandra.locator.DynamicEndpointSnitch.access$000(DynamicEndpointSnitch.java:40)
at org.apache.cassandra.locator.DynamicEndpointSnitch$1.run(DynamicEndpointSnitch.java:71)
at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.DebuggableScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$UncomplainingRunnable.run(DebuggableScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:75)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:439)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
using cqlsh
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admin@ip-XX-XX-XX-XX:/usr/bin$ cqlsh ip-XX-XX-XX-XX.ec2.internal 9160
Connected to Dev Cluster at ip-XX-XX-XX-XX.ec2.internal:9160.
[cqlsh 3.1.2 | Cassandra 1.2.6.1 | CQL spec 3.0.0 | Thrift protocol 19.36.0]
Use HELP for help.
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