Trying to run starfish results in an exception in Rinda:

$ starfish foo.rb                     
server started for #<Foo:0x1499cb4 @i=0>
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/starfish.rb:202:in `negotiate': RingNotFound (RuntimeError)
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/starfish.rb:85:in `client'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/bin/starfish:26
        from /opt/local/bin/starfish:16

This happened initially with an AR map_reduce type script, but happens also with the foo.rb example in starfish docs.

Googling for the error message, I found at least one other who's had the same problem (but no solution):
http://groups.google.com/group/midwestrb/browse_thread/thread/d02425490f08b927

I also found this: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/205107

However, monkey patching rinda didn't help, I still get the same error.

This happens both in Ruby 1.8.4 and 1.8.6.

Starfish is still running after the exception:

$ ps auxww|grep starfish
jarkko   20135   0.1 -0.6    44456  13480  p4  S     1:00PM   0:01.22 ruby
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/../bin/starfish foo.rb server
jarkko   20133   0.0 -0.0    40848    328  p4  S     1:00PM   0:00.00 ruby /opt/local/bin/starfish foo.rb
jarkko   20134   0.0 -0.0    27808    684  p4  S     1:00PM   0:00.01 sh -c ruby
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/../bin/starfish foo.rb server > /dev/null

However, any additional calls to starfish die with a similar error:

$ starfish foo.rb 
/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:212:in `lookup_ring_any': RingNotFound (RuntimeError)
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:109:in `finger'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:118:in `primary'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/../bin/../lib/starfish.rb:68:in `server'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/../bin/starfish:22
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/starfish.rb:202:in `negotiate': RingNotFound (RuntimeError)
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib/starfish.rb:85:in `client'
        from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/bin/starfish:26
        from /opt/local/bin/starfish:16

Any ideas where this could come from and how it could be fixed?

Date: 2007-10-17 15:15
Sender: Andrew Stott

I'm seeing the same error, running 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel
0) [i686-darwin8.9.4]) on Mac OS X (10.4.10).  Any ideas?


$ starfish foo.rb 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:212:in `lookup_ring_any':
RingNotFound (RuntimeError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:109:in
`finger'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rinda/ring.rb:118:in
`primary'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib
/../bin/../lib/starfish.rb:68:in `server'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/starfish-1.2.1/lib
/../bin/starfish:22