Riak: "Failed to read test value: {error,{insufficient_vnodes,0,need,1}}" after running "riak-admin test"

Question

Getting this error soon after running riak start despite a config file that should be working correctly.

Answer 1

Turns out that this is a limit of Riak's error messaging: you will get the above message if you try to do a riak-admin test on your setup before the configuration has finished loading.