# Could not locate the leader master: GetLeaderMasterRpc

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/could-not-locate-the-leader-master-getleadermasterrpc/2446>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/could-not-locate-the-leader-master-getleadermasterrpc/2446 "2024-01-18T06:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![subh14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@subh14](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/subh14)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2024, 6:13am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/could-not-locate-the-leader-master-getleadermasterrpc/2446/1 "2024-01-18T06:13:28Z")

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Hi  
I am trying to do manual start of yugabyte master using a conf flle. getting error as

E0117 18:50:11.352945 306437 async\_initializer.cc:95] Failed to initialize client: Timed out (yb/rpc/rpc.cc:220): Could not locate the leader master: GetLeaderMasterRpc(addrs: [:7100, :7100, :7100], num\_attempts: 53) passed its deadline 707714.021s (passed: 1.544s): Not found (yb/master/master\_rpc.cc:286): no leader found: GetLeaderMasterRpc(addrs: [:7100, :7100, :7100], num\_attempts: 1

–master\_addresses=ip1:7100,ip2:7100,ip3:7100  
–rpc\_bind\_addresses=ip1:7100  
–enable\_ysql  
–fs\_data\_dirs=/data1/ybmdata1  
–fs\_wal\_dirs=/data2/mstrwaldir  
–log\_dir=/applog/ybmlog  
–replication\_factor=3  
–webserver\_interface=ip1  
–webserver\_port=7020  
–metric\_node\_name=yb-master-1  
–placement\_cloud=region  
–placement\_region=region  
–placement\_zone=region1  
–enable\_automatic\_tablet\_splitting=true  
–ysql\_num\_shards\_per\_tserver=1

i am using  
./bin/yb-master --flagfile conf/tmaster.conf \>& /applog/yb-master-2.out &

to start tmaster server.

However when i am starting yb-master manually like  
/bin/yb-master  
–master\_addresses=ip1:7100,ip2:7100,ip3:7100  
–rpc\_bind\_addresses=ip1  
–enable\_ysql  
–fs\_data\_dirs=/data1/ybmdata1  
–fs\_wal\_dirs=/data2/mstrwaldir  
–log\_dir=/applog/ybmlog  
–replication\_factor=3  
–webserver\_interface=ip1  
–webserver\_port=7020  
–metric\_node\_name=yb-master-1  
–placement\_cloud=region  
–placement\_region=region  
–placement\_zone=region1  
–enable\_automatic\_tablet\_splitting=true  
–ysql\_num\_shards\_per\_tserver=1 \> log.out &

It starting fine.

It would be great help if you could let me know what i am doing wrong when trying to start using a conf file.

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**Author:** ![dorian\_yugabyte](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/dorian_yugabyte/32/206_2.png) [@dorian\_yugabyte](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/dorian_yugabyte)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/could-not-locate-the-leader-master-getleadermasterrpc/2446/2 "2024-01-29T08:36:14Z")

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Hi @subh14

Are you still having issues here?

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**Author:** ![subh14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@subh14](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/subh14)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/could-not-locate-the-leader-master-getleadermasterrpc/2446/3 "2024-01-29T14:06:01Z")

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Hi Dorian  
Leader master is started, however I am seeing that error in the logs whenever i am trying to add/start a master node. Also I found below error in logs quite frequently. Not sure if this is expected.

I0129 14:05:04.265509 31474 poller.cc:66] Poll stopped: Service unavailable (yb/rpc/scheduler.cc:80): Scheduler is shutting down (system error 108)

regular DB at: /data/ybtdata3/yb-data/tserver/data/rocksdb/table-00004001000030008000000000004533/tablet-ff373ea085b54e46957377fdc9fa1502: IO error (yb/rocksdb/util/env\_posix.cc:320): /data/ybtdata3/yb-data/tserver/data/rocksdb/table-00004001000030008000000000004533/tablet-ff373ea085b54e46957377fdc9fa1502/LOCK: No such file or directory