MJ McKenzie on "Fresh install of DSE on Ubuntu 12.04 fails"

I am setting up a single node local install of DSE on a Ubuntu 12.04 box that is a VMware guest.

Base Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with static IP and only ssh and virtual guest software installed. After install I run the following.

sudo -i
# add 3rd party sources
# add multiverse sources
sed -i "/^# deb.*multiverse/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
# add datastax sources
echo "deb http://<username>:<Password>@debian.datastax.com/enterprise stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datastax.sources.list
#Add the DataStax repository key to your Aptitude trusted keys:
curl -L https://debian.datastax.com/debian/repo_key|  apt-key add -nslookup
# add java 7 sources
apt-get -y install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
#Update the server
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
#Install the latest version of Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7.
apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer
#After the installation you have enable the jdk:
echo "JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle" >> /etc/environment
apt-get install libjna-java
# Installs both DataStax Enterprise and OpsCenter.
apt-get install dse-full opscenter
#Fix permissions in /var/log/
chown -R cassandra /var/log/cassandra
# Reboot
init 6
# check to make sure cassandra is running
nodetool ring

I made no changes to cassandra.yaml
DSE is not running.

/var/log/output.log reports the following;

INFO 11:24:51,908 Loading settings from file:/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.lang.Thread.currentThread(Native Method)
at java.lang.ThreadLocal.get(ThreadLocal.java:143)
at java.lang.StringCoding.deref(StringCoding.java:63)
at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:330)
at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:916)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes0(Native Method)
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.getBooleanAttributes(UnixFileSystem.java:242)
at java.io.File.exists(File.java:772)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:1072)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:199)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:358)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:792)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:792)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.<clinit>(FBUtilities.java:67)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.Config.<init>(Config.java:115)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:374)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor$ConstructMapping.createEmptyJavaBean(Constructor.java:214)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor$ConstructMapping.construct(Constructor.java:184)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.Constructor$ConstructYamlObject.construct(Constructor.java:370)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.constructObject(BaseConstructor.java:177)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.constructDocument(BaseConstructor.java:136)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.constructor.BaseConstructor.getSingleData(BaseConstructor.java:122)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Loader.load(Loader.java:52)
at org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml.load(Yaml.java:166)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.loadYaml(DatabaseDescriptor.java:153)
at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:128)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:211)
at com.datastax.bdp.server.DseDaemon.setup(DseDaemon.java:164)
at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.init(CassandraDaemon.java:375)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.load(DaemonLoader.java:212)
Cannot load daemon
Service exit with a return value of 3