[Users] Guest Agent

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

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 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.
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
>


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Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
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