Hi Greg, Thanks very much for your quick reply.
I simply forgot to mention platform. It's Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and it's not systemd. I will look at the link you provide. Is there any chance that it might apply to non-systemd platforms? Cordially, Paul On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Greg Mann <g...@mesosphere.io> wrote: > Hi Paul, > Noticing the logging output, "Failed to find resources file > '/tmp/mesos/meta/resources/resources.info'", I wonder if your trouble may > be related to the location of your agent's work_dir. See this ticket: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-4541 > > Some users have reported issues resulting from the systemd-tmpfiles > service garbage collecting files in /tmp, perhaps this is related? What > platform is your agent running on? > > You could try specifying a different agent work directory outside of /tmp/ > via the `--work_dir` command-line flag. > > Cheers, > Greg > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Paul Bell <arach...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am hoping someone can shed some light on this. >> >> An agent node failed to start, that is, when I did "service mesos-slave >> start" the service came up briefly & then stopped. Before stopping it >> produced the log shown below. The last thing it wrote is "Trying to create >> path '/mesos' in Zookeeper". >> >> This mention of the mesos znode prompted me to go for a clean slate by >> removing the mesos znode from Zookeeper. >> >> After doing this, the mesos-slave service started perfectly. >> >> What might be happening here, and also what's the right way to >> trouble-shoot such a problem? Mesos is version 0.23.0. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> -Paul >> >> >> Log file created at: 2016/03/29 14:19:39 >> Running on machine: 71.100.202.193 >> Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msg >> I0329 14:19:39.512249 5870 logging.cpp:172] INFO level logging started! >> I0329 14:19:39.512564 5870 main.cpp:162] Build: 2015-07-24 10:05:39 by >> root >> I0329 14:19:39.512588 5870 main.cpp:164] Version: 0.23.0 >> I0329 14:19:39.512600 5870 main.cpp:167] Git tag: 0.23.0 >> I0329 14:19:39.512612 5870 main.cpp:171] Git SHA: >> 4ce5475346a0abb7ef4b7ffc9836c5836d7c7a66 >> I0329 14:19:39.615172 5870 containerizer.cpp:111] Using isolation: >> posix/cpu,posix/mem >> I0329 14:19:39.615697 5870 main.cpp:249] Starting Mesos slave >> I0329 14:19:39.616267 5870 slave.cpp:190] Slave started on 1)@ >> 71.100.202.193:5051 >> I0329 14:19:39.616286 5870 slave.cpp:191] Flags at startup: >> --attributes="hostType:shard1" --authenticatee="crammd5" >> --cgroups_cpu_enable_pids_and_tids_count="false" >> --cgroups_enable_cfs="false" --cgroups_hierarchy="/sys/fs/cgroup" >> --cgroups_limit_swap="false" --cgroups_root="mesos" >> --container_disk_watch_interval="15secs" --containerizers="docker,mesos" >> --default_role="*" --disk_watch_interval="1mins" >> --docker="/usr/local/ecxmcc/weaveShim" --docker_kill_orphans="true" >> --docker_remove_delay="6hrs" >> --docker_sandbox_directory="/mnt/mesos/sandbox" >> --docker_socket="/var/run/docker.sock" --docker_stop_timeout="15secs" >> --enforce_container_disk_quota="false" >> --executor_registration_timeout="5mins" >> --executor_shutdown_grace_period="5secs" >> --fetcher_cache_dir="/tmp/mesos/fetch" --fetcher_cache_size="2GB" >> --frameworks_home="" --gc_delay="1weeks" --gc_disk_headroom="0.1" >> --hadoop_home="" --help="false" --hostname="71.100.202.193" >> --initialize_driver_logging="true" --ip="71.100.202.193" >> --isolation="posix/cpu,posix/mem" --launcher_dir="/usr/libexec/mesos" >> --log_dir="/var/log/mesos" --logbufsecs="0" --logging_level="INFO" >> --master="zk://71.100.202.191:2181/mesos" >> --oversubscribed_resources_interval="15secs" --perf_duration="10secs" >> --perf_interval="1mins" --port="5051" --qos_correction_interval_min="0ns" >> --quiet="false" --recover="reconnect" --recovery_timeout="15mins" >> --registration_backoff_factor="1secs" >> --resource_monitoring_interval="1secs" --revocable_cpu_low_priority="true" >> --strict="true" --switch_user="true" --version="false" >> --work_dir="/tmp/mesos" >> I0329 14:19:39.616835 5870 slave.cpp:354] Slave resources: cpus(*):4; >> mem(*):23089; disk(*):122517; ports(*):[31000-32000] >> I0329 14:19:39.617032 5870 slave.cpp:384] Slave hostname: 71.100.202.193 >> I0329 14:19:39.617046 5870 slave.cpp:389] Slave checkpoint: true >> I0329 14:19:39.618841 5894 state.cpp:36] Recovering state from >> '/tmp/mesos/meta' >> I0329 14:19:39.618872 5894 state.cpp:672] Failed to find resources file >> '/tmp/mesos/meta/resources/resources.info' >> I0329 14:19:39.619730 5898 group.cpp:313] Group process (group(1)@ >> 71.100.202.193:5051) connected to ZooKeeper >> I0329 14:19:39.619760 5898 group.cpp:787] Syncing group operations: >> queue size (joins, cancels, datas) = (0, 0, 0) >> I0329 14:19:39.619773 5898 group.cpp:385] Trying to create path '/mesos' >> in ZooKeeper >> >> >