Error: "Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native"

Solution

This issue is typically caused by a noexec flag set on the temporary directory.

There are two possible ways to resolve the issue:

• Remount the tmp directory without the noexec flag.

  or

• Configure Cassandra to use another location as a temporary directory. To do that...

  ... for a ZIP installation:

  1. Stop Upsource: <upsource_home>/bin/upsource.sh stop

  2. Run the following command:

     <Upsource_home>/apps/cassandra/bin/cassandra.sh configure -J-Djava.io.tmpdir=$HOME

  3. Start Upsource

  ... for a Docker installation:

  1. Stop Upsource: docker exec <containerId> stop

  2. Run the following command:

     docker run -it
     -v <path to data directory>:/opt/upsource/data \
     -v <path to conf directory>:/opt/upsource/conf \
     -v <path to logs directory>:/opt/upsource/logs  \
     -v <path to backups directory>:/opt/upsource/backups \
     -p <port on host>:XXXX \
     --entrypoint=/bin/bash jetbrains/upsource:<version> \
     /opt/upsource/apps/cassandra/bin/cassandra.sh \
     configure -J-Djava.io.tmpdir=$HOME