I am just chiming in but could this be an issue with the brew installer?

Ages ago, .4x time, I started out using brew and had issues so I switched
to pulling from github. May be worth a try.

Jeff

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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