Issue while installing twitter zipkin

Question

I am trying to install zipkin, after following the steps given (https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/blob/master/doc/install.md), when I access http://localhost:8080/ on the web browser, instead of the zipkin UI, it gives,

*Channel Exception* at remote address: `localhost/127.0.0.1:9411`


com.twitter.finagle.NoStacktrace(Unknown Source) 

and gives out an error on the query terminal.

[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery: A server service  threw an exception

[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: Cannot read. Remote side has closed. Tried to read 33554433 bytes, but only got 110 bytes.
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransport.readAll(TTransport.java:86)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readStringBody(TBinaryProtocol.java:354)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.readMessageBegin(TBinaryProtocol.java:215)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.thrift.ThriftServerTracingFilter$$anonfun$apply$2.apply(ThriftServerFramedCodec.scala:216)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.thrift.ThriftServerTracingFilter$$anonfun$apply$2.apply(ThriftServerFramedCodec.scala:150)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.tracing.Trace$.unwind(Trace.scala:183)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.thrift.ThriftServerTracingFilter.apply(ThriftServerFramedCodec.scala:148)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.thrift.ThriftServerTracingFilter.apply(ThriftServerFramedCodec.scala:123)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.Filter$$anon$5.apply(Filter.scala:52)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.Filter$$anon$2.apply(Filter.scala:69)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.Service$$anon$1.apply(Service.scala:14)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.filter.MkJvmFilter$$anon$1.apply(JvmFilter.scala:29)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.Filter$$anon$5$$anon$1.apply(Filter.scala:53)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.tracing.TracingFilter$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(TracingFilter.scala:18)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.tracing.TracingFilter$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(TracingFilter.scala:16)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.tracing.Trace$.unwind(Trace.scala:183)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.tracing.TracingFilter.apply(TracingFilter.scala:16)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.Filter$$anon$5$$anon$1.apply(Filter.scala:53)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.filter.MonitorFilter$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(MonitorFilter.scala:16)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.finagle.filter.MonitorFilter$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(MonitorFilter.scala:16)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Future$$anonfun$monitored$1.apply$mcV$sp(Future.scala:92)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$$anonfun$apply$1.apply$mcV$sp(Monitor.scala:38)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Monitor.scala:38)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Monitor.scala:38)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$$anonfun$using$1.apply(Monitor.scala:103)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$.restoring(Monitor.scala:110)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$.using(Monitor.scala:101)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$class.apply(Monitor.scala:37)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Monitor$$anon$1.apply(Monitor.scala:141)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:     at com.twitter.util.Future$.monitored(Future.scala:91)
[error] FAT [20140204-16:37:05.539] ZipkinQuery:

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Can please anyone help me how to resolve this ??

Answer 1

This is due to not having an instance of the query server running.

I'm in the middle of a re-write that'll simplify all of this. Until then, you need to spin up a query server.