elasticsearch service fails to start due to permissions on /usr/share/elasticsearch/

[Jeff Hillman]

The elasticsearch charm fails on peer-relation-joined because the service itself fails to start. looking at the logs in /var/log/syslog, elastic search is complainig that it can't write to /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs

That directory doesn't exist, if we creaete that dir and give it ownership by elasticsearch, the error message goes away.

Charm elasticsearch-32 from charmstore.

using the 6.x repository

[Jeff Hillman (jhillman)]

UPDATE: We re-deployed and just giving logs permissions isn't enough, ES also wants to create and add to /usr/share/elasticsearch/data. Giving user.gorup ownership to elasticsearch for /usr/share/elasticsearch seems to resolve this better.

This could be an elastic search package issue, or I suppose the charm could make the permissions change...

[Vern Hart (vern)]

Is this being seen anywhere else? If not, what is special about this deployment?

[Sander Borny (sborny)]

I also encountered this issue.
Deployed via `juju deploy cs:elasticsearch --config apt-repository="deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main"`.

[Xav Paice (xavpaice)]

I've been unable to reproduce this, is there something specific we can do to get a reproducer?

[Jeff Hillman (jhillman)]

We no longer have access to the environment that this was found in. It was
both offline and air-gapped.

Using Elasticsearch-32 and 'artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt/ stable
main', all hosted on a local mirror.

Jeff Hillman
Principal Cloud Consultant
Canonical
Mobile: [phone]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:25 PM Xav Paice <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've been unable to reproduce this, is there something specific we can
> do to get a reproducer?
>
> ** Changed in: charm-elasticsearch
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
> elasticsearch service fails to start due to permissions on
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/
>
> Status in Elasticsearch Charm:
> Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> The elasticsearch charm fails on peer-relation-joined because the
> service itself fails to start. looking at the logs in
> /var/log/syslog, elastic search is complainig that it can't write to
> /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs
>
> That directory doesn't exist, if we creaete that dir and give it
> ownership by elasticsearch, the error message goes away.
>
> Charm elasticsearch-32 from charmstore.
>
> using the 6.x repository
>
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