https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153989#M7787 <P>I have the same problem. Guess you are using a mounted volume for your splunk index/db.</P> <P>config.vm.synced_folder "splunk", "/opt/splunk"</P> <P>That does not work. Try Going into Virtualbox settings and use a bigger VM disk, something like /home/splunk. I made it work that way.</P> Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:09:40 GMT marinao_dm 2014-04-18T19:09:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153986#M7784 <P>Hi</P> <P>I'm starting with settingup splunk in my local vagrant box. I dounloaded tar ball and uzipped. From inside the directory on running</P> <P><CODE>./splunk start splunkd</CODE> gives</P> <P>Checking prerequisites...<BR /> Checking mgmt port [9092]: open<BR /> Checking configuration... Done.<BR /> Checking critical directories... Done<BR /> Checking indexes...</P> <P>This is the part where it hangs and never returns back. Looks like some silly configuration to index only very small of data. Can anyone help?</P> Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:18:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153986#M7784 rajalokan 2013-11-23T22:18:48Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153987#M7785 <P>What OS is the box?</P> Sun, 24 Nov 2013 13:01:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153987#M7785 lukejadamec 2013-11-24T13:01:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153988#M7786 <P>Please let me know the content of "indexes.conf" file listed under "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local" directory and also the first two lines of "inputs.conf" and "props.conf"</P> Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:30:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153988#M7786 abhayneilam 2013-11-24T18:30:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153989#M7787 <P>I have the same problem. Guess you are using a mounted volume for your splunk index/db.</P> <P>config.vm.synced_folder "splunk", "/opt/splunk"</P> <P>That does not work. Try Going into Virtualbox settings and use a bigger VM disk, something like /home/splunk. I made it work that way.</P> Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:09:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/starting-splunkd-hangs-after-checking-Indexes/m-p/153989#M7787 marinao_dm 2014-04-18T19:09:40Z