hi i missconfigured the mon addr in ceph.conf. /etc/init.d/ceph did not show any errors - seemd to start. but cmon did not start. i've "straced" cmon: bind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6789), sin_addr=inet_addr ("192.168.32.61")}, 16) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAbind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6789), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.32.61")}, 16) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address)IL (Cannot assign requested address) A descriptive error message would be cool. - Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html