title: Unable to start cassandra
body: <p>I am trying to start cassandra so I did 
  <code>sudo ./cassandra</code></p>
  
  <p>I came across this 
  <code>Error: Exception thrown by the agent : java.net.MalformedURLException: Local host name unknown: java.net.UnknownHostException: node24.nise.local: node24.nise.local</code></p>
  
  <p>so I did what was mentioned as on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7496640/problem-on-starting-cassandra">problem on starting cassandra</a> link and i changed the /etc/hosts file.</p>
  
  <p>Then the starting process got stuck after this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>INFO 22:27:14,227 CFS(Keyspace='system', ColumnFamily='local') liveRatio is 33.904761904761905 (just-counted was 33.904761904761905).  calculation took 110ms for 3 cells
  
   INFO 22:27:14,260 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-local@726006040(84/840 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
  
   INFO 22:27:14,262 Writing Memtable-local@726006040(84/2848 serialized/live bytes, 4 ops)
  
   INFO 22:27:14,280 Completed flushing /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-jb-50-Data.db (116 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=1401859631027, position=500327)
  
   WARN 22:27:14,327 setting live ratio to maximum of 64.0 instead of Infinity
  
   INFO 22:27:14,327 Enqueuing flush of Memtable-local@1689909512(10100/101000 serialized/live bytes, 259 ops)
  
   INFO 22:27:14,328 CFS(Keyspace='system', ColumnFamily='local') liveRatio is 64.0 (just-counted was 64.0).  calculation took 0ms for 0 cells
  
   INFO 22:27:14,350 Writing Memtable-local@1689909512(10100/101000 serialized/live bytes, 259 ops)
  
   INFO 22:27:14,386 Completed flushing /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/local/system-local-jb-51-Data.db (5278 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=1401859631027, position=512328)
  
   INFO 22:27:14,493 Node localhost/127.0.0.1 state jump to normal
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No other line was executed after this . Can anyone help in letting me know why did this happen exactly.</p>