gemfire start locator takes too long

Question

I've installed gemfire in my Ubuntu 17.10, using the java version "1.8.0_161", and I'm trying to start a locator using gfsh.

start locator --name=locator1

After that it shows me the following message:

Starting a Geode Locator in /home/john/projetos/my_gemfire/locator1...

And it starts printing dots, lines and lines of dot:

......................................................................

I left once running and after hours it was still printing dots. It doesn't launch any error message, it just keep printing dots.

I saw a tutorial video about it, and there it just took seconds to really start the locator.

So, anyone could give an idea how could I solve that?

Answer 1

I faced the same issue with Apache Geode 1.5 and open-jdk-9 on Ubuntu 16.04.4.

I found that the locator has been started because I can connect to it.

Press Ctrl+C to break out wait then use connect command to connect to a locator.

    dz@dz-ubuntu-16:~/my_geode$ gfsh
        _________________________     __
       / _____/ ______/ ______/ /____/ /
      / /  __/ /___  /_____  / _____  / 
     / /__/ / ____/  _____/ / /    / /  
    /______/_/      /______/_/    /_/    1.5.0

    Monitor and Manage Apache Geode
    gfsh>start locator --name=locator1
    Starting a Geode Locator in /home/dz/my_geode/locator1...
    ...................................................................................................................................................
    Broken out of wait... the Locator process will continue to startup in the background.


    gfsh>connect
    Connecting to Locator at [host=localhost, port=10334] ..
    Connecting to Manager at [host=192.168.2.168, port=1099] ..
    Successfully connected to: [host=192.168.2.168, port=1099]

    gfsh>start pulse
    Launched Geode Pulse

Actually your locator has been successfully started.