Normal Description
The dead node stayed in the nodetool status,
DN 10.210.165.55 379.76 GB 256 ? null
And in the log, it throws NPE when trying to remove it.
2015-09-10_06:41:22.92453 ERROR 06:41:22 Exception in thread Thread[GossipStage:1,5,main] 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92454 java.lang.NullPointerException: null 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92455 at org.apache.cassandra.utils.UUIDGen.decompose(UUIDGen.java:100) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92455 at org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.deleteHintsForEndpoint(HintedHandOffManager.java:201) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92455 at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.excise(StorageService.java:1886) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92455 at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.excise(StorageService.java:1902) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92456 at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.handleStateLeft(StorageService.java:1805) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92457 at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.onChange(StorageService.java:1473) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92457 at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.onJoin(StorageService.java:2099) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92457 at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.handleMajorStateChange(Gossiper.java:1009) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92458 at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.applyStateLocally(Gossiper.java:1085) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92458 at org.apache.cassandra.gms.GossipDigestAck2VerbHandler.doVerb(GossipDigestAck2VerbHandler.java:49) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92458 at org.apache.cassandra.net.MessageDeliveryTask.run(MessageDeliveryTask.java:62) 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92459 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) ~[na:1.7.0_45] 2015-09-10_06:41:22.92460 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) ~[na:1.7.0_45]