title: Cassandra Cannot locate storage-conf.xml
body: <p>I was trying to start Cassandra on FreeBSD with /usr/local/share/cassandra/bin/cassandra.
  But it gives me the following error messages, any idea how to get around the problem? Any suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you.</p>
  
  <p>INFO 21:16:38,666 JNA not found. Native methods will be disabled.
  ERROR 21:16:38,684 Exception encountered during startup.
  java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
      at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:73)
      at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:224)
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot locate storage-conf.xml via storage-config system property or classpath lookup.
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.(DatabaseDescriptor.java:584)
      ... 2 more
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot locate storage-conf.xml via storage-config system property or classpath lookup.
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.getStorageConfigPath(DatabaseDescriptor.java:180)
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.(DatabaseDescriptor.java:187)
      ... 2 more
  Exception encountered during startup.
  java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
      at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:73)
      at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:224)
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot locate storage-conf.xml via storage-config system property or classpath lookup.
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.(DatabaseDescriptor.java:584)
      ... 2 more
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot locate storage-conf.xml via storage-config system property or classpath lookup.
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.getStorageConfigPath(DatabaseDescriptor.java:180)
      at org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.(DatabaseDescriptor.java:187)
      ... 2 more</p>