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Apache's Cassandra deb that a similar behaviour and has a greater impact than ES's super-hero node names. A newly started Cassandra node will absent a token declaration in its yaml file, auto-assign a token. This is never what you want in a cluster distribution. So the workaround is either to patch the deb to not autostart or let it start, stop it, and blow away the data directories. This allows cluster management tools (such as Priam) to control the token allocation first, and then re-start Cassandra.

This is effectively how Debian/Ubuntu work. Once you know it, you can work around it. That said, it would be nice to have packages that don't run their service.