title: Riak - Riak failed to start within 15 seconds,
body: <p>Despiste deceptively easy to follow riak install instructions for ubuntu, I get the below error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>service riak start
  Riak failed to start within 15 seconds,
  see the output of 'riak console' for more information.
  If you want to wait longer, set the environment variable
  WAIT_FOR_ERLANG to the number of seconds to wait.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>1) I updated the ip address in vm.args and app.config file and restarted riak
  2) I ran the below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>riak-admin reip riak@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
  Attempting to restart script through sudo -u riak
  Usage riak-admin reip &lt;old_nodename&gt; &lt;new_nodename&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is are the riak docs telling me from <a href="https://wiki.basho.com/Basic-Cluster-Setup.html" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.basho.com/Basic-Cluster-Setup.html</a>?</p>