BeeGFS - Meta Server don't want to start ....

[Zhéxué M. Krawutschke]

Hello all,

I installed BeeGFS for the first time today and I have my problems with the start of the META - instance.

I get the error message:

beegfs-meta.service - BeeGFS Metadata Server

     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/beegfs-meta.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-08-23 17:26:46 UTC; 3s ago

       Docs: http://www.beegfs.com/content/documentation/

    Process: 190919 ExecStart=/opt/beegfs/sbin/beegfs-meta cfgFile=/etc/beegfs/beegfs-meta.conf runDaemonized=false (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

   Main PID: 190919 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

        CPU: 6ms

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB systemd[1]: Started BeeGFS Metadata Server.

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB beegfs-meta[190919]: Error: Failed to store root directory

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB beegfs-meta[190919]: [BeeGFS Metadata Node Version: 7.2.3

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB beegfs-meta[190919]: Refer to the default config file (/etc/beegfs/beegfs-meta.conf)

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB beegfs-meta[190919]: or visit http://www.beegfs.com to find out about configuration options.]

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB systemd[1]: beegfs-meta.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Aug 23 17:26:46 Zhexue-SlurmDB systemd[1]: beegfs-meta.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

And in the LOG file it says the following:

cat beegfs-meta.log

(3) Aug23 17:26:46 Main [App.cpp:641] >> Limiting number of xattrs per inode.

(1) Aug23 17:26:46 Main [App] >> This appears to be a new storage directory. Creating a new root dir.

(0) Aug23 17:26:46 Main [App] >> Failed to store root directory. Unable to proceed.

(0) Aug23 17:26:46 Main [App] >> Failed to store root directory

What else can I do? How do I get further here?

Best regards 

[Evan Felix]

I would turn up the debug levels in the beegfs-meta.conf to see if it will give more information about what is happening.

Evan