Question

I have installed riak and erlang as mentioned in the basho website.
But when i try to start riak with the command:
/etc/init.d/riak start
or
service riak start
I get the following error:
Starting Riak: Riak failed to start within 15 seconds,
see the output of ‘riak console’ for more information.
If you want to wait longer, set the environment variable
WAIT_FOR_ERLANG to the number of seconds to wait
I also checked with the command: riak ping, which gave the error:
Attempting to restart script through sudo -H -u riak
Node ‘riak@sys_ip’ not responding to pings
I am using 64 bit Centos 6.3 machine. Can anybody help me with this?

Initially when i had installed riak and checked the status, it showed that riak had started. Somewhere during the experimentation, it has stopped working. Not able to find, as to what might be the reason?

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks all ! I found the solution to my problem. I was running the commands as root user. When I tried using the same commands as non-root user with sudo prefix, everything just worked fine ! 🙂