[ovirt-users] [ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed , message shown at the end of installation

[John Joseph]

On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 4:40 PM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com> wrote:


----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Joseph" <jjk_saji at yahoo.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 2:12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed , message shown at the end of installation
> 
I saw that you got the same error:
RequestError: 
status: 400
reason: Bad Request
detail: Permission settings on the specified path do not allow access to the storage.
Verify permission settings on the specified storage path.
2015-05-05 07:56:52 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:161 Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': 
status: 400
reason: Bad Request
detail: Permission settings on the specified path do not allow access to the storage.
Verify permission settings on the specified storage path.

The problem probably lies in not having eXecute permission for vdsm on /home/itsupport. In order for any user to traverse, not necessarily look into a directory, that user must have execute permission either via a group or via a direct permission.

Please ensure that vdsm user could effectively write there before trying again.
You can check it with:
# sudo -u vdsm touch /home/itsupport/images/wtest

Hi Simone, 

Great thanks to you.
I was not able to write to the dir as vdsm 

Now taking clue from that, I made a dir in /home named as vdsm and gave ownership as "vdsm:kvm"

then did 

sudo -u vdsm mkdir /home/vdsm/images
sudo -u vdsm mkdir -p /home/vdsm/exports/iso

then the installation and it is SUCCESS, 
THANKS  to you 

Joseph John 


> Joseph John> Now this time also when I create a Virtual Machine image, the