On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Derek Yarnell wrote: > On 6/18/13 5:31 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > >> 1) Remove the %ghost directive and allow RPM to install the directory. > >> Potentially leaving orphaned pid/state files after the package is removed. > >> > >> 2) Or the directory needs to be created in the %post section. If it is > >> created in the %post section and the %ghost directive stays then when > >> the RPM is uninstalled any stale state pids/etc. will be automatically > >> deleted and not left around. > > > > 3) create /var/run/ceph on daemon startup. This is needed anyway for > > debian, where /var/run/ceph isn't supposed to be installed by the package > > at all (and isn't). It's probably true for other distros too... I think > > the goal is for this to be a tmpfs (and to also move to /run or > > something). The init scripts mkdir -p /var/run/ceph, but sometimes the > > daemons are run directly. > > Yeah so the ceph-deploy script runs a 'ceph-mon --mkfs' command before > the init script ever gets called. This is what is emitting the error. > The 3rd option is fine but if it is not something that can be done in > the short term then I think the small change to the spec file is > appropriate to make the RPMs work correctly with the new ceph-deploy method. Aha, perfect, that explains it. I've done both: the specfile does a mkdir -p, and the daemon will also create the directory if it isn't present. > > In any case, on my RHEL 6.3 box, I can 'rm -rf /var/run/ceph' and 'service > > ceph start mon' without problems. What happens for you when you try this > > locally? > > Yes so the init script does create the directory. Even if i manually > create the directory before running the initial 'ceph-deploy mon create' > I am still seeing the exception in the mon_create function that I > originally posted about. Still trying to track down what the issue is. Weird... let me know what you find! Thanks- sage _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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