Re: [Users] Guest Agent

On 11/25/2013 12:54 PM, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > On 25.11.2013 12:13, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote: >>> This should be fixed now :-) >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ovirt-guest-agent-1.0.8-5.el5 >>> >> Hi, I get now this on CentOS 5.10 x86_64 system >> >> [g.cecchi@c510 ~]$ sudo /sbin/service ovirt-guest-agent start >> Starting ovirt-guest-agent: /bin/chown: `ovirtagent:ovirtagent': >> invalid group >> [ OK ] >> [g.cecchi@c510 ~]$ >> [g.cecchi@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 > If you had rhev-guest-agent installed before, then manually remove the > user rhevagent and group rhevagent before installing ovirt-guest-agent. > the ovirt-guest-agent reuses the same uid and gid, but fails to add them > upon install when the rhev user and group is still existing. Ah yeah that explains it. Well I am not sure if the workaround for this is appropriate in the rpm. I think that should be fixed on the system, it's not really expected that someone would be 'upgrading' from the rhev-agent

> > Regards > Patrick >