That was it, Nico. Thanks. I know we did a forced shutdown this week, which was probably the cause. But I would have thought that riak would have taken care of its own lock file bookkeeping on restarting.
On May 7, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Nico Meyer wrote: > Hi Gary, > > I had this problem before a few times. > It is cause by leftover files named 'bitcask.write.lock'. Normally theey > should be cleared automatically after a crash. They contain the OS process ID > of the erlang VM which created them, and if there is no such process bitcask > deletes the file. > I believe that there might exists another process with the same process ID as > the old riak process. Did you reboot the machine by any chance? since then > the PIDs start counting up from 1 again. > > The easy fix for your problem is to delete all bitcask.write.lock files in > your bitcask directory (e.g. 'rm /var/lib/bitcask/*/bitcask.write.lock'). > If you are curious you could check if my hunch is right beforehand. Just look > at the contents of any of these files (which looks like: PID > /path/to/current/bitcaskfile/123456.bitcask.data), and see if there is > another process with the PID. > > Cheers Nico > > > On 06.05.2011 23:08, Gary William Flake wrote: >> Now trying 500 lines. >> -- GWF >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 6, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Gary William Flake wrote: >> >>> Resending with only the last 1000 lines from the log file, so that the list >>> server doesn't reject it. >>> >>> Any insights would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> -- GWF >>> >>> <tail-sasl-error.log> >>> >>> >>> On May 6, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Gary William Flake wrote: >>> >>>> Today, after running fine for a couple of weeks, I had erlang crash, >>>> making it so that riaksearch can only do reads but no writes. >>>> >>>> Nothing has changed with the code and it had been running fine for weeks >>>> without a problem. The sasl-error.log is attached. >>>> >>>> Any ideas what's going on? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> -- GWF >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
