After upgrade from JBoss ON 3.2.3 to 3.3.0, some rhq column families are unavailable and compaction operations fail

Issue

• After upgrade from JBoss ON 3.2.3 to JBoss ON 3.3.0, some column families are reported as unavailable: one_hour_metrics, six_hour_metrics, twenty_four_hour_metrics and metrics_index.
• On disk the corresponding directories are not accessed any more and previously scheduled manual compaction task fails.
• Manual compaction operation fails after JBoss ON upgrade from 3.2.3 to 3.3.0
• Manual compaction operation fails with the exception:

org.mc4j.ems.connection.EmsInvocationException: Exception on invocation of [forceTableCompaction]javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown table/cf pair (rhq.metrics_index)
    at org.mc4j.ems.impl.jmx.connection.bean.operation.DOperation.invoke(DOperation.java:133)
    at org.rhq.plugins.cassandra.util.KeyspaceService.compact(KeyspaceService.java:101)
    at org.rhq.plugins.cassandra.KeyspaceComponent.compactKeyspace(KeyspaceComponent.java:168)
    at org.rhq.plugins.cassandra.ColumnFamilyComponent.invokeOperation(ColumnFamilyComponent.java:70)
...
Caused by: javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown table/cf pair (rhq.metrics_index)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown table/cf pair (rhq.metrics_index)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.getColumnFamilyStore(Table.java:168)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.getValidColumnFamilies(StorageService.java:2407)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.forceTableCompaction(StorageService.java:2246)
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