I'm also noticing an issue with starting riak. I too cannot start riak regularly, but riak console works just fine.
Checked all the permission, they seems to be okay. Shuhao On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Steve Hull <[email protected]> wrote: > So one thing that seems bizarre is that riak has created directory structure > under /tmp to mirror the directory structure from root to the binary > executable. > > For example, after I tried to start riak using the binary installed by brew, > I noticed this directory structure that got added to /tmp: > > ! ls -alhrt /tmp/usr/local/Cellar/riak/1.1.2-x86_64/libexec/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 3 shull wheel 102B Jul 13 13:56 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 2 shull wheel 68B Jul 13 14:24 ./ > > > And similarly for the local pre-packaged version, it created: > > ! ls -alhrt /tmp/Users/shull/Dev/prodar/riak-1.1.4/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 3 shull wheel 102B Jul 13 14:08 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 4 shull wheel 136B Jul 16 11:56 ./ > prw------- 1 shull wheel 0B Jul 16 11:57 erlang.pipe.1.w| > prw------- 1 shull wheel 0B Jul 16 11:57 erlang.pipe.1.r| > > > I guess there's nothing really *wrong* with that, it just kind of worried me > at first to see that directory structure under /tmp. > > Anyway if I read your email correctly, you wanted me to try to start riak > and then after it reports failure, try to attach to it: > > [07-16 11:55] (master)~/Dev/prodar > ! riak-1.1.4/bin/riak start > Riak failed to start within 15 seconds, > see the output of 'riak console' for more information. > If you want to wait longer, set the environment variable > WAIT_FOR_ERLANG to the number of seconds to wait. > > [07-16 11:56] (master)~/Dev/prodar > ! riak-1.1.4/bin/riak attach > Node is not running! > > > Not sure if any logs would be interesting to look at after this. > Interestingly, riak does seem to be running, as basic REST stuff seems to > work OK (using Ruby + Ripple). > > -S > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Erik Søe Sørensen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, from the logs it looks like a normal and successful startup... >> consistent with the fact that a riak process continues to exists. >> And the startup does not seem to be slow (which would cause a timeout for >> the script waiting for the node to come up); from logging starts to the node >> is ready takes just 2s. >> It then remains to be determined why the start script reports timeout. >> >> Either it can't connect to the node, or the check it attempts to make >> within the node (whether an Erlang process called 'riak_core_node_watcher' >> is registered) never succeeds. >> Have you tried attaching to the node, using "riak attach"? That would >> check which of the two things fail. >> >> The pipe files are usually called things like >> /tmp/riak/erlang.pipe.2.r >> (they exist in pairs: one to and one from the node). >> >> /Erik >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Steve Hull [[email protected]] >> Sent: 16 July 2012 08:20 >> To: Erik Søe Sørensen >> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: riak doesn't start on new Macbook Pro Retina >> >> Hi Erik! >> >> Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out /tmp but didn't see anything >> that looked like a pipe for riak... perhaps could you tell me what the file >> would be named? >> >> Not sure which logs would be most useful, but please find everything that >> was generated attached. >> >> -S >> >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Erik Søe Sørensen >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> If I remember correctly, this may be a symptom that the pipe file on /tmp >> which Riak wants to use does already exists but is owned by another user. >> This happens if Riak has previously been run by a different user. >> If it's not that, I suggest you provide the logs from the failed "riak >> start" attempt for further diagnosis... > > > > > -- > Steve Hull | TaskRabbit |Software Engineer > P: 510.928.4719 > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
