# bro won't start -- I've broken something... **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [September 22, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-wont-start-ive-broken-something/2822 "2013-09-22T22:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Russell\_Fulton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Russell\_Fulton](https://community.zeek.org/u/Russell_Fulton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-wont-start-ive-broken-something/2822/1 "2013-09-22T22:15:44Z")
HI folks I ran out of disk last week and after cleaning up I find that bro won't start. At first "broctl start" would hang after the 'starting manager…' you had to kill the processes. I then reinstalled bro (keeping my config) and now I get: sensors@secmontst01:~$ sudo broctl start starting manager ... manager terminated immediately after starting; check output with "diag" so I did that: sensors@secmontst01:~$ sudo broctl diag [manager] No gdb installed. ==== No reporter.log ==== stderr.log error in /opt/bro/share/bro/base/frameworks/cluster/\_\_load\_\_.bro, line 16: can't open cluster-layout ==== stdout.log unlimited unlimited unlimited ==== .cmdline -U .status -p broctl -p broctl-live -p local -p manager local.bro broctl base/frameworks/cluster local-manager.bro broctl/auto ==== .env\_vars PATH=/opt/bro/bin:/opt/bro/share/broctl/scripts:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin BROPATH=/var/opt/bro/spool/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/site::/var/opt/bro/spool/installed-scripts-do-not-touch/auto:/opt/bro/share/bro:/opt/bro/share/bro/policy:/opt/bro/share/bro/site CLUSTER\_NODE=manager broctl.cfg: ## Global BroControl configuration file. # Recipient address for all emails send out by Bro and BroControl. MailTo = r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz # Site-specific policy script to load. Bro will look for this in # $PREFIX/share/bro/site. A default local.bro comes preinstalled # and can be customized as desired. SitePolicyStandalone = local.bro # Location of other configuration files that can be used to customize # BroControl operation (e.g. local networks, nodes). CfgDir = /opt/bro/etc # Location of the spool directory where files and data that are currently being # written are stored. SpoolDir = /home/sensors/data/test1/bro-spool # Location of the log directory. This is longer term storage for rotated logs. LogDir = /home/sensors/data/test1/bro-logs # Rotation interval in seconds for log files on manager/standalone node. LogRotationInterval = 3600 # Expiration interval for log files in LogDir. Files older than this many days # will be deleted upon running "broctl cron". # LogExpireInterval = 30 # Lower threshold for space available on the disk that holds SpoolDir. If less # space is available, BroControl starts sending out warning emails. MinDiskSpace = 5 # Logs debug information into spool/debug.log. Debug = 1 network.cfg: List of local networks in CIDR notation, optionally followed by a # descriptive tag. # For example, "10.0.0.0/8" or "fe80::/64" are valid prefixes. 172.24.0.0/16 UoA staff wireless 172.23.0.0/16 UoA student wireless 130.216.0.0/16 UoA wired 10.2.0.0/16 UoA resnet node.cfg: [manager] type=manager host=130.216.5.218 ---
**Author:** ![Russell\_Fulton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Russell\_Fulton](https://community.zeek.org/u/Russell_Fulton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-wont-start-ive-broken-something/2822/2 "2013-09-22T22:41:00Z")
THanks Justin! Doh! It had to be something simple! Time I retired 😉 Russell ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-wont-start-ive-broken-something/2822/3 "2022-05-06T15:41:14Z")
Closed on May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC