Cassandra in single node cluster crashes with "Unable to gossip with any peers"

I have an instance of cassandra running on my server in single node configuration but a few minutes after startup it crashes with the following error:

ERROR [main] 2023-05-10 16:05:08,197 CassandraDaemon.java:911 - Exception encountered during startup
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to gossip with any peers
	at org.apache.cassandra.gms.Gossiper.doShadowRound(Gossiper.java:1844)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.checkForEndpointCollision(StorageService.java:650)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.prepareToJoin(StorageService.java:936)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:786)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:731)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:420)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:765)

Any idea on how to fix this? I find this especially weird given that all other threads I have found deal with multi-node configuration.

I have also checked the commitlog and the permissions there are fine.

seeds list:

seed_provider:
    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
      parameters:
          - seeds: "127.0.0.1:7000"

So, given that 127.0.0.1 is the localhost I would say the configuration is fine.

As it states in the error, the node cannot gossip with seeds.

You've configured localhost in the seeds list but Cassandra is not able to connect to 127.0.0.1 on gossip port 7000 which indicates that the node is not listening for gossip connections on localhost.

This would lead me to conclude that you've specified a different IP address for listen_address. You need to update the seeds list and set it to the same IP address.

For example:

listen_address: 10.1.2.3

seed_provider:
  - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider
    parameters:
      - seeds: "10.1.2.3:7000"