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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