Server getting stuck on raft init sometimes

[farcaller]

I'm running influxdb in a docker container as a single instance. Sometimes after a restart it gets stuck:

[03/14/14 20:41:28] [INFO] Opening database at /var/lib/influxdb/db
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] Initializing Raft HTTP server
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] ProtobufServer listening on 0.0.0.0:8099
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] Raft Server Listening at http://influxdb-0:8090
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] Initializing Raft Server: /var/lib/influxdb/raft 8090
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] ClusterServer: 1 connecting to: influxdb-0:8099
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] ProtobufServer: client connected: 172.17.0.3:50378
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] connected to influxdb-0:8099
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] Recovered from log
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] Waiting for local server to be added
[03/14/14 20:41:29] [INFO] (raft:d798d28) Selected as leader. Starting leader loop.

The only way to fix it is to remove raft directory, restart server and re-create all the databases and users.

[jvshahid]

We've seen this problem when the local hostname detection fails. Try to set the hostname in the config file to influxdb-0 on line 6. So line 6 should look like this:

hostname = "influxdb-0"

This should fix the problem.

[jvshahid]

I opened issue #345 to fix this problem. I'll go ahead and close this one, but please feel free to reopen if you think this problem is unrelated to the hostname detection issue.

[nichdiekuh]

Works like a charm! Thank you John! :)