how are you starting Riak? Did you install a package or are you building from source?
Jordan On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Nabil Hassein <na...@betterpath.com> wrote: > 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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