EventStore doesn't start up (first time use)

EventStoreDB
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I’m trying to startup a server of EventStore on OSx through Node.JS (via: child_process.spawn), because I want to startup a development environment with Node & EventStore easily (I want to use the NPM package in a Meteor.JS package).

Unfortunately starting up EventStore throws an error:

[01034,17,13:13:11.254] Couldn’t get drive name for directory ‘/event-store-server-3.0.3-osx/server/data’ on Unix.
ApplicationName=‘df’, CommandLine=’-P /event-store-server-3.0.3-osx/server/data’, CurrentDirectory=’’, Native error= Cannot find the specified file

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Within the node log I find this:

[PID:01034:017 2015.05.29 13:13:11.254 DEBUG MonitoringService ] Couldn’t get drive name for directory ‘/event-store-server-3.0.3-osx/serve
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: ApplicationName=‘df’, CommandLine=’-P /event-store-server-3.0.3-osx/server/data’, CurrentDirectory=’’,

at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start_noshell (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo, System.Diagnostics.Process process) [0x00000] in :0

at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start_common (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo, System.Diagnostics.Process process) [0x00000] in :0

at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo) [0x00000] in :0

at EventStore.Common.Utils.ShellExecutor.GetOutput (System.String command, System.String args) [0x00000] in :0

at EventStore.Core.Services.Monitoring.Stats.EsDriveInfo.GetDirectoryRootInUnix (System.String directory, ILogger log) [0x00000] in :0

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I found one other similar error, but there was a mention of lack of memory, don’t think that is the case for me, as there have been no writes to the database.

Anyone an idea?

Many thanks!

2

Looks like you set an invalid path to your database?
'/event-store-server-3.0.3-osx/server/data‘

There is an placeholder inside.

Daniel

3

That would’ve been an easy fix, but unfortunately, that’s an edit I did before posting it here…

4

try running df -P path

Thats whats causing the error. What kind of mount is being pointed at?

5

I have a hacky set of code that runs EventStore from nodejs here https://github.com/bmavity/ges-test-helper/blob/master/ges-test-helper.js

Maybe if you can get that working it can help you figure out what you’re missing. You can use it like below (sorry for the formatting).

var ges = require(‘ges-test-client’)
ges({ tcpPort: 3456 }, function(err, es) {
if(err) return done(err)
// use EventStore here
}

Brian