title: Cassandra starting issue
body: <p>I have problems starting Cassandra. The follow is my terminal output when I try to issue a start command:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>root@gestion:~# cassandra -f <br>
    Exception in thread "main"
    java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError Caused by:
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Couldn't figure out log4j configuration.
      at
    org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:75)
    Could not find the main class:
    org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon. <br>
    Program will exit.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I exported the JAVA_HOME path. I am on an 10.04 Lucid machine. Can anyone please help me?</p>