Troubleshooting Tips for OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

We hope all goes well but we're willing to help if all doesn’t go as planned. If your tests fail, or you can’t auth, or something doesn’t work, here are some good starting places to look for issues:

Swift logs all events in /var/log/syslog, so that is a good first place to look for errors. Most likely these are Python tracebacks.
Make sure all of the server processes are running. For base Swift functionality, the Proxy, Account, Container, Object and Auth servers should be running.
If one of the servers are not running, and no errors are logged to syslog, it may be useful to try to start the server manually rather than with a script. For example: swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server/1.conf starts the object server.
If there are problems not showing up in syslog, then you will likely see the traceback on startup.

You can also go to http://answers.launchpad.net/swift to ask a question, or pop on the #openstack IRC channel to talk to Swift developers. You can also add discussion items to TroubleshootingSwift/Discuss here on the wiki.