Even after a manual `mkdir /home/nabil/riak/ring && sudo chown riak:riak /home/nabil/riak/ring`, I still can't start the riak service.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jordan West <jw...@basho.com> wrote: > 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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