[Users] Guest Agent

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Gianluca Cecchi  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
>
>>
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>> This should be fixed now :-)
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.8-5.el5
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>
> Hi, I get now this on CentOS 5.10 x86_64 system
>
> [g.cecchi at c510 ~]$ sudo /sbin/service ovirt-guest-agent start
> Starting ovirt-guest-agent: /bin/chown: `ovirtagent:ovirtagent': invalid group
>                                                            [  OK  ]
> [g.cecchi at c510 ~]$
> [g.cecchi at c510 ~]$ sudo /sbin/service ovirt-guest-agent status
> ovirt-guest-agent dead but pid file exists
>
>
> in /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent.log
>
> MainThread::INFO::2013-11-22
> 17:15:30,579::ovirt-guest-agent::37::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
> MainThread::ERROR::2013-11-22
> 17:15:31,251::ovirt-guest-agent::117::root::Unhandled exception in
> oVirt guest agent!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 111, in ?
>     agent.run(daemon, pidfile)
>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 47, in run
>     f = file(pidfile, "w")
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/ovirt-guest-agent.pid'
>
> Gianluca

I had a time skew on the guest but the problem is real.
changed time and rebooted, I see in console the same permission error.
ANd now
[root at c510 ~]# date
Mon Nov 25 12:15:50 CET 2013

[root at c510 ~]# service ovirt-guest-agent status
ovirt-guest-agent dead but pid file exists

/var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log

MainThread::INFO::2013-11-25
12:15:24,517::ovirt-guest-agent::37::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
MainThread::ERROR::2013-11-25
12:15:24,919::ovirt-guest-agent::117::root::Unhandled exception in
oVirt guest agent!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 111, in ?
    agent.run(daemon, pidfile)
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py", line 47, in run
    f = file(pidfile, "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/ovirt-guest-agent.pid'