Re: [Users] Guest Agent

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.

Regards Patrick