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From: Allan Carroll <allanca@gmail.com>
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Subject: Retrieving dead node's token from system keyspace
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:22:55 -0600
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Hey all,=20

I had a node go down that I'm not able to get a token for from nodetool =
ring.

The wiki says:

"You can obtain the dead node's token by running nodetool ring on any =
live node, unless there was some kind of outage, and the others came up =
but not the down one -- in that case, you can retrieve the token from =
the live nodes' system tables."

But, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the system =
keyspace to give up the secret. All attempts end up in:

ERROR [pool-1-thread-2] 2010-10-07 21:20:44,865 Cassandra.java (line =
1280) Internal error processing get_slice
java.lang.RuntimeException: No replica strategy configured for system


Can someone point me at a good way to get the token?

Thanks
-Allan=