This isnt a driver error, one of cassandra's internal CFs is missing.
The local column family is in the system keyspace, it stores information about C* nodes and should be created when cassandra starts up for the first time. This is probably some form of permission error (but C* should really fail to start if one of the system keyspaces is missing) restricting cassandra from creating the column-family, that or it has been manually removed.
The solution would be to clear your cassandra data directory and restart C* (dont do this if you are in a production environment unless you know how to backup / upgrade cassandra nodes, this will remove all data so snapshot it if you are going to go down this route)