Cassandra won't boot up on large clusters

[polsm91]

Launching large Cassandra clusters frequently fails . E.g:

$: c4s RUN -nC=32 -nA=16 --disjoint -t=02:00:00 --appl="source $PWD/oifs_run.sh"
#....
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No sources found for (5295671739002157221,5301679954721116433]
	at org.apache.cassandra.dht.RangeStreamer.getAllRangesWithSourcesFor(RangeStreamer.java:233)
	at org.apache.cassandra.dht.RangeStreamer.addRanges(RangeStreamer.java:177)
	at org.apache.cassandra.dht.BootStrapper.bootstrap(BootStrapper.java:87)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.bootstrap(StorageService.java:1501)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.joinTokenRing(StorageService.java:977)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:682)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.initServer(StorageService.java:613)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:379)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:602)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:691)