Hmm...ok. Will have to ponder how we can fix that.

Thanks!

D.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Nico Meyer <nico.me...@adition.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I believe problem occours if there happens to be another process with
> the same PID as the old (now gone) riak node. This can happen if the
> machine was rebooted since the riak node crashed or if the PIDs wrapped,
> they are only two bytes after all.
> os_pid_exists/1 only checks for ANY process with the PID from the
> lockfile
> (https://github.com/basho/bitcask/blob/master/src/bitcask_lockops.erl#L116).
>
>
>
> Am Montag, den 09.05.2011, 07:06 -0600 schrieb David Smith:
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Gary William Flake <g...@flake.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Bitcask does:
>>
>> https://github.com/basho/bitcask/blob/master/src/bitcask_lockops.erl#L46
>>
>> It's curious that the logic didn't handle the case. What platform/OS
>> are you on? Are you using init scripts to restart on boot?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> D.
>
>
>



-- 
Dave Smith
Director, Engineering
Basho Technologies, Inc.
diz...@basho.com

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