Arch Linux

shevket

Member

Registered: 2017-07-19

Posts: 13

rethinkdb systemd service fails: "Inaccessible database file"

Hello,

I cannot start any rethinkdb service although the command line server works.

I created the `/var/lib/rethinkdb/default` directory and changed its ownership to `rethinkdb:rethinkdb`,
so that `ls -la /var/lib/rethindb/default` outputs:

total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 rethinkdb rethinkdb 4096 Mar 15 17:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 rethinkdb rethinkdb 4096 Mar 15 17:14 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 rethinkdb rethinkdb 1886 Mar 15 17:46 log_file
drwxr-xr-x 2 rethinkdb rethinkdb 4096 Mar 15 17:14 tmp

But running `# systemctl start rethindb@default` silently fails and I get the following output with `systemctl status`:

● rethinkdb@default.service - RethinkDB database server for instance 'default'
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rethinkdb@.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
● rethinkdb@default.service - RethinkDB database server for instance 'default'
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rethinkdb@.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: signal) since Sun 2020-03-15 22:21:30 CET; 1min 44s ago
    Process: 2004 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rethinkdb serve --config-file /etc/rethinkdb/instances.d/default.conf (code=killed, signal=TRAP)
   Main PID: 2004 (code=killed, signal=TRAP)

Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net systemd[1]: Started RethinkDB database server for instance 'default'.
Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net rethinkdb[2004]: Version: rethinkdb 2.4.0 (GCC 9.2.1)
Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net rethinkdb[2004]: error: Inaccessible database file: "/var/lib/rethinkdb/default/metadata": No such file or directory
Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net rethinkdb[2004]:        Some possible reasons:
Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net rethinkdb[2004]:        - the database file couldn't be created or opened for reading and writing
Mar 15 22:21:29 vps561946.ovh.net rethinkdb[2004]:        - the user which was used to start the database is not an owner of the file
Mar 15 22:21:30 vps561946.ovh.net systemd[1]: rethinkdb@default.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=5/TRAP
Mar 15 22:21:30 vps561946.ovh.net systemd[1]: rethinkdb@default.service: Failed with result 'signal'.

I tried touching a metadata file but then the service just hangs and errors.

I don't really have a clue what the issue is here. I'm actually wondering if migrating to another db is not wiser. I used rdb in the past and liked it, but it seemed they were having maintainment issues at the time... So any help or info is appreciated!

WilliS

Member

Registered: 2020-02-25

Posts: 4

Re: rethinkdb systemd service fails: "Inaccessible database file"

I run in the same error after I installed AUR package.
I could solve the problem with

# rethinkdb

run as root which initialized folder 'rethinkdb_data' in '/var/lib/rethinkdb'. After that I removed default folder, renamed rethinkdb_data to default and changed ownership to

chmod -R rethinkdb:rethinkdb /var/lib/rethinkdb

Edit: Can't confirm the solution because rethinkdb 2.4.1-1 from aur has known bug. Web interface doesn't work.

Last edited by WilliS (2020-09-16 14:26:51)