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[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 11/25/2013 01:09 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
> 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
"it's not really expected that someone would be 'upgrading' from the 
rhev-agent" to the ovirt-guest-agent.
>>
>> Regards
>> Patrick
>>
>
>


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Regards,

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