This is not a driver error, one of the internal cassandra CF systems is missing.
The local column family is in the system key space, it stores information about C * nodes and should be created when cassandra is launched for the first time. This is probably a certain form of permission error (but C * does not really start if one of the system key spaces is missing), restricting cassandra from creating a family of columns that were manually deleted.
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