PlasticSCM server logging issue (and failure to run daemon)

Question

I just installed PlasticSCM under Centos 5. Everything, including dependencies, installed nice and clean looking on the server but the software refuses to launch and will not write any log file contents at all.

When running PlasticSCM, I use this command:

./plasticsd start

About a minute passes and then it responds:

Starting PlasticSCM server: Unable to start PlasticSCM server. PleaseFAILED a look at the plastic.server.log file, placed in the plastic server location, for more details.

The system will make a set of blank log files and not write to any of them.

Any ideas?

FWIW, I did the exact same install on a Cent 6 system and everything is running flawlessly. I can't see any differences between the two so that makes this extra perplexing for me.

Answer 1

In case anyone is wondering what happened here. It turns out that the problem is related to a bug in trying to run this under CentOS 5 that was unresolvable. We upgraded the server to CentOS 6 to resolve the issue.

Answer 2

Try to run a "sudo ./plasticsd start" command, without permissions you will have issues with multitude of configuration files.