Linux Installer doesn't work on Linux Mint 22 cinnamon, Kernel 6.8.0-51 generics

[edmondop]

Following the procedure here https://docs.restate.dev/get_started/quickstart/ to download binaries doesn't work:

 restate-server

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             Restate 1.1.6
          https://restate.dev/

2025-01-18T00:39:43.029044Z INFO restate_server
  Starting Restate Server 1.1.6 (e814d6b x86_64-unknown-linux-musl 2024-12-24)
    node_name: "edmondo-Laptop-13-AMD-Ryzen-7040Series"
    config_source: [default]
    base_dir: /home/edmondo/restate-data/edmondo-Laptop-13-AMD-Ryzen-7040Series/
on main
2025-01-18T00:39:43.037636Z ERROR restate_server
  Restate application failed
    error: building worker failed: failed creating worker: failed opening partition store: Invalid argument: Direct I/O is not supported by the specified DB.
    restate.error.code: None
on main

It might be because my home folder uses ecryptfs?https://www.ecryptfs.org/

[edmondop]

Confirmed, restate-server --base-dir=/tmp/ works

[AhmedSoliman]

Sounds like right. You can try disabling direct i/o in rocksdb settings (reference)

namely

rocksdb-disable-direct-io-for-reads = true
rocksdb-disable-direct-io-for-flush-and-compactions = true

Please let me know if this works

[edmondop]

Confirmed, it works. Do you think modifying the rocksdb adapter layer in Restate to add a warning would be appropriate ?

impl RocksError {
    pub(crate) fn from_rocksdb_error(err: rocksdb::Error) -> Self {
        let err_message = err.to_string();

        if err_message.starts_with("IO error: While lock file:")
            && err_message.ends_with("Resource temporarily unavailable")
        {
            Self::DbLocked(err)
        } else {
            if err_message.contains("Direct I/O is not supported") {
                warn!(
                    r#"""Direct I/O can be disabled by configuring rocks-db-disable-direct-io-for-reads 
                        and rocksdb-disable-direct-io-for-flush-and-compactions. RocksDB is better run 
                        with Direct I/O enabled, are you running on an encrypted fs?"""#
                );
            }
            Self::Other(err)
        }
    }
}

[AhmedSoliman]

@edmondop That sounds like a reasonable approach. Would you be interested in sending out a PR?

cc. @jackkleeman for visibility.