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  1. OpenNMS
  2. NMS-13417

Starting opennms with systemd as non-root fails with access denied for pid

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved (View Workflow)
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 29.0.0
    • None
    • Security Level: Default (Default Security Scheme)
    • None
    • Horizon 2021 - Jul 7 - Jul 21

    Description

      When you do a fresh installation on Debian and try to start the service with systemd it fails with the following error message:

      sudo journalctl -xe
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]: file locks                      (-x) unlimited
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian systemd[1]: opennms.service: Can't open PID file /run/opennms.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]: ERROR: failed to write PID to /var/run/opennms.pid: /var/run/opennms.pid
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/run/opennms.pid
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:219)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newOutputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:478)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newOutputStream(Files.java:220)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newBufferedWriter(Files.java:2920)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newBufferedWriter(Files.java:2963)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at org.opennms.bootstrap.Bootstrap.writePid(Bootstrap.java:551)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at org.opennms.bootstrap.Bootstrap.executeClass(Bootstrap.java:517)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at org.opennms.bootstrap.Bootstrap.executeClass(Bootstrap.java:484)
Jun 28 15:53:48 debian opennms[29907]:         at org.opennms.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:480)
Jun 28 15:55:01 debian CRON[31020]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jun 28 15:55:01 debian CRON[31021]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Jun 28 15:55:01 debian CRON[31020]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Jun 28 15:55:11 debian systemd[1]: opennms.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Jun 28 15:55:11 debian systemd[1]: opennms.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.

      The OpenNMS user can't create the pid file in /var/run/opennms.pid.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. NMS-13415 Installation with non-root user failes on CentOS 8

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Resolved
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          Enhancement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. NMS-13016 Allow OpenNMS Core service to run as non-root

          • Minor - Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present.
          • Resolved

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