Summary
When attempting to start an existing or new project, a missing configuration can result in failure. This article explains the cause of this issue and provides a potential solution.
Reported Issue
The coordinator fails to start with the following error message in the UI:
Failed to start Services. Failure while starting services. Failure reading configuration file.
The following properties were invalid: paths.gandiva
Also in the log file:
2023-03-28 14:22:33,252 [main] INFO c.d.d.daemon.AwsConfigurationModule - Failure while starting services Failure reading configuration file. The following properties were invalid:
paths.gandiva
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[com.dremio.config.DremioConfig.check(DremioConfig.java:264), com.dremio.config.DremioConfig.<init>(DremioConfig.java:237), com.dremio.config.DremioConfig.create(DremioConfig.java:370), com.dremio.config.DremioConfig.create(DremioC
onfig.java:319), com.dremio.config.DremioConfig.create(DremioConfig.java:315), com.dremio.dac.server.DACConfig.newConfig(DACConfig.java:211), com.dremio.dac.daemon.AwsConfigurationModule.run(AwsConfigurationModule.java:60), com.dre
mio.dac.daemon.AwsDremioDaemon.main(AwsDremioDaemon.java:18)]
2023-03-28 14:22:33,272 [main] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Rollback attach EFS
2023-03-28 14:22:33,272 [main] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Unmounting EFS
2023-03-28 14:22:33,288 [main] INFO com.dremio.dac.server.AwsUtil - Executing command, bash -c sudo mv /var/log/dremio.backup /var/log/dremio.backup1680013353288
2023-03-28 14:22:33,328 [main] INFO com.dremio.dac.server.AwsUtil - Executing command, bash -c sudo mkdir -p /var/log/dremio.backup
2023-03-28 14:22:33,365 [main] INFO com.dremio.dac.server.AwsUtil - Executing command, bash -c sudo cp -r /var/log/dremio/* /var/log/dremio.backup
Relevant Versions
Dremio version 24.0.0
Troubleshooting Steps
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Cause
There is a known issue outlined in internal jira DX-59392. There is a code fix in later versions to address this issue.
Steps to Resolve
You can add the following entry to the end of the `dremio.conf` file:
paths.metadata: ""
Upgrade Dremio to a release later than 24.0.0.
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