# gvwstate.dat not found during pxc startup **URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/gvwstate-dat-not-found-during-pxc-startup/4911 **Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x **Created:** [May 30, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/gvwstate-dat-not-found-during-pxc-startup/4911 "2016-05-30T09:57:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 2 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![jdanilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@jdanilson](https://forums.percona.com/u/jdanilson) #### Post date: [May 30, 2016, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/gvwstate-dat-not-found-during-pxc-startup/4911/1 "2016-05-30T09:57:43Z")
datadir=/xyz ← note no trailing / show global datadir shows /xyz/ ← note trailing / error log says /xyz//gvwstate.dat is missing. which is correct but /xyz/gvwstate.dat does exist. so add explicity wsrep\_data\_home=/xyz ← no trailing / and it sitll complains that /xyz/gvwstate.dat does not exists but it does. two possible errors? 5.6.28-76.1-56-log Percona XtraDB Cluster (GPL), Rleease rel76.1 REvision f9b078d, WSREP version 25.14, wsrep\_25.14 rhel 7 ---
### Author: ![jrivera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/jrivera/32/13_2.png) [@jrivera](https://forums.percona.com/u/jrivera) #### Post date: [May 31, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/gvwstate-dat-not-found-during-pxc-startup/4911/2 "2016-05-31T08:02:28Z")
It perfectly works fine for me, and I don’t have to add wsrep\_data\_home= ```auto [root@pxc1 ~]# mysql -e 'select @@global.datadir' +------------------+ | @@global.datadir | +------------------+ | /var/lib/mysql/ | +------------------+ [root@pxc1 ~]# grep datadir /etc/my.cnf datadir=/var/lib/mysql [root@pxc1 ~]# ls -ll /var/lib/mysql/gvws* -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 170 May 31 09:29 /var/lib/mysql/gvwstate.dat [root@pxc1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server-56-5.6.29-25.15.1.el6.x86_64 ```