Debugging and troubleshooting

In this section, we will look at how to troubleshoot and debug the common issues faced during setup.

Handling missing library dependencies

Sometimes, when you try to build Mesos on a brand new Linux VM, it may throw up errors in the configure step. An example is a missing libz-dev package:

configure: error: cannot find libz
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libz is required for Mesos to build.
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Whenever you find an error such as the preceding one or something similar to a missing package, the next thing that you need to do is to install these missing packages and execute the configure command again.

Here, to resolve the missing libz library, you will have to type in the following on the Ubuntu machine:

$ sudo apt-get install libz-dev

For CentOS flavors, the command will be as follows:

$ yum install zlib-devel

Issues with directory permissions

If Mesos is trying to...