>From your prompt you're in node1's install directory and node1 *is* already a member of a cluster, as shown in member-status.
You need to run the riak-admin command from the directory for the node that is joining; http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/quickstart/#Create-the-Cluster On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Naveen Tamanam <naveen32in...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am getting the following error even through the node is not a member of > cluster. > The cluster is not prepared yet. First time I ran the nodes and I was trying > to join them in the cluster. > > [root@node1 riak]# bin/riak-admin cluster join node3@172.31.6.244 > Failed: This node is already a member of a cluster > > But when I see the membership I am only getting the fillwing > > [root@node1 riak]# bin/riak-admin member-status > ================================= Membership > ================================== > Status Ring Pending Node > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > joining 0.0% -- 'node1@172.31.6.248' > valid 100.0% -- 'node5@172.31.15.58' > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Valid:1 / Leaving:0 / Exiting:0 / Joining:1 / Down:0 > > > I have 5 nodes, and their name in vm.arg are > node1@ip > node2@ip > node3@ip > node4@ip > node5@ip > > like it is being displayed in the member status. > > I only able to join one node from after onwards I am getting > Failed: This node is already a member of a cluster. > > I also tried by clearing the ring data on each node . Any thing wrong? > > > > > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Naveen Tamanam > > _______________________________________________ > 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