Suggestion: publish name of the directory that could not be created in the log? See yellow line below. I have no idea now which directory could not be created.
Initializing Stardog
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INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:29,578 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:join(416): Starting up node fa98606e-8f57-4158-a3bf-b171cafbc9b9
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:29,578 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:join(417): ZK Connection r80an10:2180,r80an20:2180,r80an30:2180,r80an40:2180
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:29,623 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.impl.ZKLeaderLatch:joinCoordinatorElection(76): Node fa98606e-8f57-4158-a3bf-b171cafbc9b9 is joining coordinator election
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:34,646 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:computeSystemDbSyncAction(584): System database is out of sync: 389 != 369
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:34,649 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:computeDbSyncActions(558): Remote databases [vertica_test, dbpedia, slap]
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:34,654 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:syncDatabases(619): System database sync action: SYNC
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:34,667 [main] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.ReplicatedKernelImpl:syncDatabase(661): Sync database slap (SYNC_FULL) from RemoteDatabase(2eb24a08-d869-446d-8bf6-4aec874294e4, slap, snarlp://r80an40:5821)
INFO 2015-12-01 14:45:35,062 [main-EventThread] com.complexible.stardog.pack.replication.impl.ZKLeaderLatch:abandonCoordinatorElection(87): Node fa98606e-8f57-4158-a3bf-b171cafbc9b9 is abandoning coordinator election
Shutting down Stardog server...
Shutdown successful.
Failed to create directory within 10000 attempts (tried 1448999134907-0 to 1448999134907-9999)