I'm actually joining new nodes that have the latest version to the cluster. 
Once I join the nodes I have the old nodes leave. This has worked great in the 
past. I'll use the recommended method next time :)

Dave

On Sep 24, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Brian Sparrow <[email protected]> wrote:

> David,
> 
> The standard way to kick transfers is setting transfer_limit to 0 and then 
> back up to 2(default) or higher(up to 8 without turning other knobs). This 
> can be done with `riak-admin transfer_limit 0` then `riak-admin 
> transfer_limit 4`.
> 
> With that said, may I ask why you are upgrading nodes by leaving them and 
> then re-joining them back to the cluster? Unless you are changing backend 
> properties this should not be necessary and simply taking nodes down, 
> upgrading them, and restarting them is the standard way to do a rolling 
> upgrade[1].
> 
> Let us know how things go after kicking the transfers.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/running/rolling-upgrades/
> 
> -- 
> Brian Sparrow
> Developer Advocate
> Basho Technologies
> 
> Sent with Sparrow
> 
> On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Greenstein wrote:
> 
>> I'm not receiving any errors actually. I'm far from an expert in riak logs, 
>> but the console.log messages seem to indicate the handoff is working… just 
>> extremely slowly. Here's a snippet from the console.log of the node that is 
>> attempting to leave…
>> 
>> 
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:43.991 [info] 
>> <0.7140.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:process_message:99 Receiving handoff 
>> data for partition 
>> riak_kv_vnode:685078892498860742907977265335757665463718379520
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:43.994 [info] 
>> <0.7140.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:handle_info:69 Handoff receiver for 
>> partition 685078892498860742907977265335757665463718379520 exited after 
>> processing 0 objects
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:44.035 [info] 
>> <0.7142.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:process_message:99 Receiving handoff 
>> data for partition 
>> riak_kv_vnode:45671926166590716193865151022383844364247891968
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:44.038 [info] 
>> <0.7142.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:handle_info:69 Handoff receiver for 
>> partition 45671926166590716193865151022383844364247891968 exited after 
>> processing 0 objects
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:44.068 [info] 
>> <0.7144.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:process_message:99 Receiving handoff 
>> data for partition 
>> riak_kv_vnode:1415829711164312202009819681693899175291684651008
>> 2013-09-24 20:59:44.073 [info] 
>> <0.7144.0>@riak_core_handoff_receiver:handle_info:69 Handoff receiver for 
>> partition 1415829711164312202009819681693899175291684651008 exited after 
>> processing 0 objects
>> 
>> The percentages in member_status still have not changed though.
>> 
>> Thank you again for any help!!!
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Dmitry Demeshchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Seems like a potential problem with handoff. We had similar problems 
>>> upgrading from 1.2.1 to 1.4.0. Check the logs for handoff errors (something 
>>> like <<"unknown_msg">> or similar).
>>> 
>>> If that's the case, leave that node be, and do in-place upgrade for the 
>>> rest of the nodes, without making them leave the cluster. The third node 
>>> will probably leave after that, so you'll be able to re-join it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:33 PM, David Greenstein <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm performing a rolling upgrade to 1.4.2 (from 1.3.1). The first two 
>>>> nodes that I replaced left the cluster without an issue and the new nodes 
>>>> joined without an issue. Now, the next node seams to be in a state where 
>>>> it won't leave the cluster. The status is leaving but it has been pending 
>>>> for several hours. Perhaps it is due to the pending ownership handoff from 
>>>> ring_status that also doesn't seem to be completing. Any insight or help 
>>>> on how to "kickstart" the leave would be greatly appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
>>>> [user@ip-10-0-1-12 user]# /db/riak/bin/riak-admin ring_status
>>>> ================================== Claimant 
>>>> ===================================
>>>> Claimant:  '[email protected]'
>>>> Status:     up
>>>> Ring Ready: true
>>>> 
>>>> ============================== Ownership Handoff 
>>>> ==============================
>>>> Owner:      [email protected]
>>>> Next Owner: [email protected]
>>>> 
>>>> Index: 456719261665907161938651510223838443642478919680
>>>>  Waiting on: [riak_kv_vnode]
>>>>  Complete:   [riak_pipe_vnode]
>>>> 
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> 
>>>> ============================== Unreachable Nodes 
>>>> ==============================
>>>> All nodes are up and reachable
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [user@ip-10-0-1-12 user]# /db/riak/bin/riak-admin member_status
>>>> ================================= Membership 
>>>> ==================================
>>>> Status     Ring    Pending    Node
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> leaving    14.1%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      14.1%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      14.1%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      17.2%     15.6%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      12.5%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      14.1%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> valid      14.1%     14.1%    '[email protected]'
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Valid:6 / Leaving:1 / Exiting:0 / Joining:0 / Down:0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dmitry Demeshchuk
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