Splunk startup failure: "Fatal error 'kse_create() failed'" on FreeBSD 8.0

[mpounsett]

I'm running the splunk 32-bit package for FreeBSD 6.x on FreeBSD 8.0 i386 with the compat6x package installed. I understand from other postings I've seen that this is expected to work.

However, first startup is failing. This is what I'm seeing:

> sudo ./splunk start

Splunk> See your world.  Maybe wish you hadn't.

Checking prerequisites...
    Checking http port [8000]: open
    Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
    Checking configuration...  Done.
    Checking index directory...
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/appserver/i18n
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/appserver/modules/static/css
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/upload
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/spool/splunk
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/spool/dirmoncache
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/authDb
    Creating: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/hashDb
    Validated databases: _audit _blocksignature _internal _thefishbucket history main summary
    Done
Fatal error 'kse_create() failed
' at line 469 in file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c (errno = 0)
Assertion failed: (_linkp == NULL), function ~Timeout, file /opt/splunk/p4/splunk/branches/hammer/src/util/TimeoutHeap.cpp, line 21.
SSL certificate generation failed.

Anyone have any ideas what the problem is here?

[mpounsett]

I never was able to make this work. Eventually I just reinstalled the machine with 8.2-R amd64 and installed the FreeBSD 7.3 package with the 7x compat libs. That works great.

[mpounsett · Accepted solution]

I never was able to make this work. Eventually I just reinstalled the machine with 8.2-R amd64 and installed the FreeBSD 7.3 package with the 7x compat libs. That works great.