title: Cassandra Seed crashed - How to rejoin?
body: <p>I have a 3-node cluster of cassandra instances.</p>
  
  <p>My former seed died. I wiped the data directory and the commitlogs in hope that it will rejoin the cluster, but it didn't.</p>
  
  <p>Promoting the other 2 remaining nodes as seeds didn't help, because the former seed just goes up without getting any data, but metadata. I promoted them to seeds by adding them to the "-seeds" list in cassandra.yaml</p>
  
  <p>This is my log when joining:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://pastebin.com/Z28LhA3w" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/Z28LhA3w</a></p>
  
  <p>192.168.81.66 is the seed. 192.168.81.68 and 192.168.81.70 are the other two nodes</p>