title: Cannot start Cassandra db using bin/cassandra
body: <p>I have Ubuntu 12.04 with cassandra 1.1.3 (tarball installation), When I try to start cassandra, I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user@ubuntu:~/apache-cassandra-1.1.3/bin$ sudo ./cassandra -f
  xss =  -ea -javaagent:./../lib/jamm-0.2.5.jar -XX:+UseThreadPriorities -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42 -Xms4G -Xmx4G -Xmn800M -XX:    +HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xss128k
  user@ubuntu:~/apache-cassandra-1.1.3/bin$ 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>According to cassandra  documentation, the output does not look as expected:</p>
  
  <pre><code>The service should start in the foreground and log gratuitously to 
  standard-out. Assuming you don't see messages with scary words like  
  "error", or "fatal", or anything that looks like a Java stack trace,  
  then chances are you've succeeded.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, what is the problem?</p>