I installed the binary via yum.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Jordan West <jw...@basho.com> wrote: > how are you starting Riak? Did you install a package or are you building > from source? > > Jordan > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Nabil Hassein <na...@betterpath.com>wrote: > >> Even after a manual `mkdir /home/nabil/riak/ring && sudo chown riak:riak >> /home/nabil/riak/ring`, I still can't start the riak service. >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jordan West <jw...@basho.com> wrote: >> >>> Hey Nabil, >>> >>> Riak is having trouble finding or creating the ring directory. From your >>> logs: >>> >>> 2014-04-04 15:44:41.655 [critical] <0.147.0>@riak_core_app:start:54 Ring >>> state directory "/home/nabil/riak/ring" does not exist, and could not be >>> created: "permission denied" >>> >>> Jordan >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Nabil Hassein <na...@betterpath.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks very much for your prompt replies. I am using the bitcask >>>> backend. For now I am just trying to use /home/nabil/riak as the directory >>>> as I test this out on my development machine, although naturally that is >>>> not the ultimate destination we have in mind for our production servers. >>>> >>>> I have changed all of the paths quite similarly to the linked gist. >>>> There are indeed errors in the Riak logs; I've pasted them here: >>>> http://pastebin.com/tQer69eJ >>>> >>>> As you can see many of them appear to related to file permissions, but >>>> like I said I've chowned the directory to the riak user and group: >>>> >>>> [nabil@localhost riak]$ pwd >>>> /home/nabil/riak >>>> [nabil@localhost riak]$ ls -latrR . >>>> .: >>>> total 8 >>>> drwxrwxr-x. 2 riak riak 4096 Apr 4 11:59 . >>>> drwx------. 62 nabil nabil 4096 Apr 4 15:51 .. >>>> >>>> >>>> Any additional advice you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks >>>> again for what you've already told me. >>>> >>>> Nabil >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Jordan West <jw...@basho.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://gist.github.com/jrwest/a37e3fff5917f0bd44eb is a recent >>>>> app.config I used on a 1.4.x cluster w/ CentOS. Look at the paths that >>>>> start w/ "/data/riak". If you're still having issues, or you have changed >>>>> all the paths: are there any errors in the Riak logs? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Jordan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Nabil Hassein >>>>> <na...@betterpath.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm trying to change /etc/riak/app.config to store data in a >>>>>> directory of my choosing rather than the default one. Simply changing >>>>>> platform_data_dir to another directory yields errors, even after a `chown >>>>>> -R riak:riak` of the relevant directory; the service starts but any >>>>>> attempts to use the REST API yield 500 Internal Server Errors. Trying to >>>>>> change other things, such as the ring_state_dir, generally results in >>>>>> riak >>>>>> failing to start at all. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone have an example configuration where data is stored in a >>>>>> different directory to the defaults, or advice about where I might be >>>>>> going >>>>>> wrong? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm using a binary install of riak 1.4.8 on CentOS, if that's >>>>>> relevant. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Nabil >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> riak-users mailing list >>>>>> riak-users@lists.basho.com >>>>>> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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