Hello, I have been trying the manual installation method of a ceph monitor (emperor release) with the goal of integrating ceph installation with a configuration management utility. I pretty much followed the docs at http://ceph.com/docs/master/install/manual-deployment/ but for me the 'ceph-mon --mkfs' command always hangs indefinitely. Here is what I do as root on an up-to-date RHEL6.5 system, ready to copy-paste on a vanilla installation: === SNIP === yum clean all cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/ceph.repo <<__END__ [ceph] name=Ceph packages for $basearch baseurl=http://ceph.com/rpm-emperor/rhel6/\$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=1 type=rpm-md gpgkey=https://ceph.com/git/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;f=keys/release.asc [ceph-noarch] name=Ceph noarch packages baseurl=http://ceph.com/rpm-emperor/rhel6/noarch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=1 type=rpm-md gpgkey=https://ceph.com/git/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;f=keys/release.asc __END__ yum install -y snappy leveldb python-argparse gperftools-libs ceph uuidgen >/etc/ceph/fsid cat >/etc/ceph/ceph.conf <<__END__ [global] fsid = `cat /etc/ceph/fsid` mon initial members = `hostname -s` mon host = `ip -f inet -o addr show eth0 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f 7 | cut -d/ -f 1` auth cluster required = cephx auth service required = cephx auth client required = cephx osd journal size = 1024 filestore xattr use omap = true osd pool default size = 2 osd pool default min size = 1 osd pool default pg num = 333 osd pool default pgp num = 333 osd crush chooseleaf type = 1 __END__ ceph-authtool --create-keyring /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring --gen-key -n mon. --cap mon 'allow *' ceph-authtool --create-keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring --gen-key -n client.admin --set-uid=0 --cap mon 'allow *' --cap osd 'allow *' --cap mds 'allow' ceph-authtool /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring --import-keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring monmaptool --create --add `hostname -s` `ip -f inet -o addr show eth0 2>/dev/null | cut -d" " -f 7 | cut -d/ -f 1` --fsid `cat /etc/ceph/fsid` /tmp/monmap mkdir /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-`hostname -s` ceph-mon --mkfs -i `hostname -s` --monmap /tmp/monmap --keyring /tmp/ceph.mon.keyring === SNIP === Any idea how to get past this step would be greatly appreciated. :)