500608 – net-p2p/bitcoind fails to start with VARDIR on 9p network mount

Bug 500608 - net-p2p/bitcoind fails to start with VARDIR on 9p network mount

Summary: net-p2p/bitcoind fails to start with VARDIR on 9p network mount

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Anthony Basile

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Reported:	2014-02-07 11:06 UTC by ViliusSutkus89
Modified:	2015-03-07 15:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description ViliusSutkus89 2014-02-07 11:06:34 UTC

Created attachment 369774 [details]
debug.log

Have /var/lib/bitcoin/ mounted as a 9p (network FS) share.

When trying to start bitcoind, I get the following error:
 * Starting Bitcoind daemon ...
 * start-stop-daemon: caught an interrupt
 * start-stop-daemon: /usr/bin/bitcoind died
 [ !! ]
 * ERROR: bitcoind failed to start

debug.log doesn't raise any eyebrows.

Have tried using tmpfs mount on /var/lib/bitcoin to find that everything works fine that way.

Could this be caused by something like file locking on a network share?
AFAIK 9p doesn't support them.

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2015-03-07 15:59:28 UTC

I'm cleaning up old bitcoin bugs.  This is not really something we can support.  bitcoin is IO intensive and not something you really want to run via a network filesystem.