title: Now getting error "message="Cannot achieve consistency level ONE" info={'required_replicas': 1, 'alive_replicas': 0, 'consistency': 'ONE'}"
body: <p>Cassandra version: dsc-cassandra-2.1.9</p>
  
  <p>Had 3 nodes, one of which was down for a long time. Brought it back up and decomissioned it. Then did a nodetool removenode.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to make a cql query I get the above error.</p>
  
  <p>Initially thought this might be because replication strategy was SimpleStrategy. So did a <code>ALTER KEYSPACE history WITH REPLICATION =
    {'class' : 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'dc1' : 2};</code></p>
  
  <p>and changed the <code>endpoint_snitch: GossipingPropertyFileSnitch</code> instead of <code>SimpleSnitch</code></p>
  
  <p>did a nodetool repair on both nodes and restarted the cassandra services</p>
  
  <p>But the problem is still there. What do I do?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT 1: Nodetool status of machine A</p>
  
  <pre><code>--  Address         Load       Tokens  Owns    Host ID                               Rack
  UN  192.168.99.xxx  19.8 GB    256     ?       xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxx4ea  RAC1
  UN  192.168.99.xxx  18.79 GB   256     ?       xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxx15  RAC1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>nodetool status output of machine B</p>
  
  <pre><code>--  Address         Load       Tokens  Owns    Host ID                               Rack
  UN  192.168.99.xxx  19.8 GB    256     ?       xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx4ea  RAC1
  UN  192.168.99.xxx  18.79 GB   256     ?       xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxf15  RAC1
  </code></pre>