Update to pass along:

We're working on the fix for this - https://github.com/basho/riak_api/pull/6

Thanks for the thorough reports.

Mark

PS - So how *is* the retina display anyway?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Shuhao Wu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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