# 'Cannot find /home/node/.rally/benchmarks/data/http\_logs/documents-191998.json.bz2. Please disable offline mode and retry again.'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** rally\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314 "2020-04-03T03:01:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![xilei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@xilei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xilei)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/1 "2020-04-03T03:01:19Z")

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Hi,  
When i run ./esrally race --pipeline=benchmark-only --target-hosts=192.168.2.28:9200 --offline --track=http\_logs --challenge=append-no-conflicts-index-only --distribution-version=5.6.10, show error as [ERROR] Cannot race. Error in track preparator (('Cannot find /home/node/.rally/benchmarks/data/http\_logs/documents-191998.json.bz2. Please disable offline mode and retry again.', None)).

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/2 "2020-04-03T07:15:52Z")

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Hi,

did you follow our [docs for offline usage](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/offline.html)? It appears as if you [did not download the track data files](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/offline.html#using-tracks).

Daniel

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**Author:** ![xilei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@xilei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xilei)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/3 "2020-04-03T08:05:42Z")

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Yes. i download all tracks to my path.  
node@node-BOXER-6405M:~/.rally/benchmarks/tracks/default$ ll  
total 80  
drwxr-xr-x 16 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:59 ./  
drwxr-xr-x 3 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:58 ../  
drwxr-xr-x 8 node node 4096 Apr 3 16:03 .git/  
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 1419 Mar 13 00:00 .gitignore  
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 4266 Mar 13 00:00 README.md  
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 2201 Apr 3 11:39 download.sh  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 eventdata/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 geonames/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 geopoint/  
drwxr-xr-x 5 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 geopointshape/  
drwxr-xr-x 5 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 geoshape/  
drwxr-xr-x 6 node node 4096 Apr 3 16:03 http\_logs/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 metricbeat/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 nested/  
drwxr-xr-x 5 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 noaa/  
drwxr-xr-x 5 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 nyc\_taxis/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 percolator/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 pmc/  
drwxr-xr-x 4 node node 4096 Apr 3 15:57 so/

And my data put on below path:  
node@node-BOXER-6405M:~/.rally/benchmarks/data$ ll  
total 12  
drwxr-xr-x 3 node node 4096 Apr 3 09:57 ./  
drwxr-xr-x 6 node node 4096 Apr 3 13:59 ../  
drwxr-xr-x 2 node node 4096 Apr 3 13:51 http\_logs/

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**Author:** ![xilei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@xilei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xilei)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/4 "2020-04-03T08:07:35Z")

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Below is details logs.  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/track/loader.py", line 399, in download  
raise exceptions.SystemSetupError("Cannot find %s. Please disable offline mode and retry again." % target\_path)

esrally.exceptions.SystemSetupError: ('Cannot find /home/node/.rally/benchmarks/data/http\_logs/documents-191998.json.bz2. Please disable offline mode and retry again.', None)

2020-04-03 08:03:19,747 ActorAddr-(T|:38853)/PID:5148 esrally.actor INFO A track preparator has exited.  
2020-04-03 08:03:19,749 ActorAddr-(T|:40191)/PID:5113 esrally.actor INFO BenchmarkActor received unknown message [ChildActorExited:ActorAddr-(T|:38853)] (ignoring).  
2020-04-03 08:03:22,745 -not-actor-/PID:5105 esrally.rally INFO Attempting to shutdown internal actor system.  
2020-04-03 08:03:22,749 -not-actor-/PID:5112 root INFO ActorSystem Logging Shutdown  
2020-04-03 08:03:22,771 -not-actor-/PID:5111 root INFO ---- Actor System shutdown  
2020-04-03 08:03:22,772 -not-actor-/PID:5105 esrally.rally INFO Actor system is still running. Waiting...  
2020-04-03 08:03:23,773 -not-actor-/PID:5105 esrally.rally INFO Shutdown completed.  
2020-04-03 08:03:23,774 -not-actor-/PID:5105 esrally.rally ERROR Cannot run subcommand [race].  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/rally.py", line 714, in dispatch\_sub\_command  
race(cfg)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/rally.py", line 624, in race  
with\_actor\_system(racecontrol.run, cfg)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/rally.py", line 652, in with\_actor\_system  
runnable(cfg)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/racecontrol.py", line 365, in run  
raise e  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/racecontrol.py", line 362, in run  
pipeline(cfg)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/racecontrol.py", line 79, in **call**  
self.target(cfg)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/racecontrol.py", line 298, in benchmark\_only  
return race(cfg, external=True)  
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/esrally/racecontrol.py", line 250, in race  
raise exceptions.RallyError(result.message, result.cause)  
esrally.exceptions.RallyError: ("Error in track preparator (('Cannot find /home/node/.rally/benchmarks/data/http\_logs/documents-191998.json.bz2. Please disable offline mode and retry again.', None))", None)

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/5 "2020-04-08T14:12:42Z")

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Hi,

can you please run `ls -la /home/node/.rally/benchmarks/data/http_logs`?

Daniel

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**Author:** ![xilei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@xilei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xilei)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/6 "2020-04-09T08:23:53Z")

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hi, this issue already fixed now. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-find-home-node-rally-benchmarks-data-http-logs-documents-191998-json-bz2-please-disable-offline-mode-and-retry-again/226314/7 "2020-05-07T08:23:59Z")

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