Can you confirm that running the server with the -f option successfully initialized the storage area? You should be able to see *.db files that were created.
Are you trying to start the server with the same userid that you used when you initialized the storage area? If not permissions may be causing a problem. Hope that helps, Elaine -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carlos Outes Durán Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Pvfs2-users] trove collection not initialized Hello. I am trying to adapt a previously parallelized program to use pvfs2 (orange 2.8.7). I never used the pvfs2 filesystem before. When I install Berkeley DB then orange, I receive no noticeable error. I can use genconfig and then start the server with -f to create storage. No errors either. However, when launching pvfs2-server, it does not output anything but one line ('...pvfs2 server on node .... starting'), but does not start. This is the /tmp/pvfs2-server.log file (logging was set to 'trove', to increase info): [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] PVFS2 Server version 2.8.7-orangefs starting. [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_thread_initialize: initialized [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_collection_lookup of coll: pvfs2-fs [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] lookup got error (22) [E 08/21/2013 19:03:18] Error initializing trove for filesystem pvfs2-fs [E 08/21/2013 19:03:18] Error: Could not initialize server subsystems [E 08/21/2013 19:03:18] Error: Could not initialize server; aborting. [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_thread_function started [E 08/21/2013 19:03:18] Trove collection not defined. [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_thread_function ending [D 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_thread_finalize: finalized [E 08/21/2013 19:03:18] dbpf_finalize attr sync: Invalid argument Since the server does not start, I cannot use any of the utilities. Only pvfs2-showcoll gives a hint: Error from trove_initialize is -1073742082 pvfs2-showcoll: error: trove initialize failed; aborting! I am using a virtual machine (VM oracle VirtualBox) running on windows 8. I tried installing several distros (ubuntu 10.04 server and 10.10, fedora 11), either updated and without updates. Berkeley db was 4.8.30, then tried 5.3.21. The odd thing is, about a month or so ago I instaled everything with the same sources and it worked like a charm (after several errors and retrials, ehem). I used the ping utility and tested files with pvfs2-ls and pvfs2-cp with no problems. Then I went on working on something else, but when I tried to use pvfs2 again recently, it failed as you can see. Unfortunately, the VM in which I installed the first time got corrupted (can't even mount partition, hangs the VM) so I can't compare to see if i did something diferent then. I think I simply followed the guide, and always used the default configurations like I am doing now. Any thoughts on what is the problem? Without the use of pvfs2, the project has no meaning, so I'm in a quandary. Any help would be greatly apreciated. If you need me to give more data, please tell me what you want to know and if posible how to obtain it. Thanks in advance for your attention. (Sidenote: my home language is not english, so I'm sorry for any weird spelling I may have used) _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
