[Gluster-users] Cannot create volume on fresh install of 3.4.3 on CentOs 5.10

[Vijay Bellur]

On 06/14/2014 11:38 AM, Alexey Zilber wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>     I'm having a horrid time getting gluster to create a volume.
>   Initially, I messed up a path and had the error mentioned here:
> http://joejulian.name/blog/glusterfs-path-or-a-prefix-of-it-is-already-part-of-a-volume/
>
>   I fixed it, restarted gluster on both nodes, and then I just get a
> straight up failure:
>
> # gluster volume create devroot replica 2 transport tcp
> sfdev1:/data/brick1/devroot sfdev2:/data/brick1/devroot
>
> volume create: devroot: failed
>
> The only thing that gets created are the extended attributes in
> /data/brick1/devroot on sfdev1.
>
> Here's the cli.log.. not much in there:
>
> ---
>
>
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.519769] W [rpc-transport.c:175:rpc_transport_load]
> 0-rpc-transport: missing 'option transport-type'. defaulting to "socket"
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.523525] I [socket.c:3480:socket_init] 0-glusterfs:
> SSL support is NOT enabled
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.523580] I [socket.c:3495:socket_init] 0-glusterfs:
> using system polling thread
>
>
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.600482] I
> [cli-cmd-volume.c:392:cli_cmd_volume_create_cbk] 0-cli: Replicate
> cluster type found. Checking brick order.
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.600844] I
> [cli-cmd-volume.c:304:cli_cmd_check_brick_order] 0-cli: Brick order okay
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.668257] I
> [cli-rpc-ops.c:805:gf_cli_create_volume_cbk] 0-cli: Received resp to
> create volume
>
>
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.668365] I [input.c:36:cli_batch] 0-: Exiting with: -1
> ---
>
> .cmd_log_history shows:
>
> [2014-06-14 05:42:03.668051]: volume create devroot replica 2 transport
> tcp sfdev1:/data/brick1/devroot sfdev2:/data/brick1/devroot : FAILED :
>
>
> etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log seems good too.
>

Can you please check again the part relating to the attempt to create 
volume devroot in glusterd.vol.log? glusterd's log file normally 
contains information regarding why an operation failed.

-Vijay