[Users] Guest Agent

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

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 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

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

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