603780 – app-admin/logstash-bin-5.1.1 crashes through lack of permissions

Bug 603780 - app-admin/logstash-bin-5.1.1 crashes through lack of permissions

Summary: app-admin/logstash-bin-5.1.1 crashes through lack of permissions

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Tomáš Mózes

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2016-12-26 18:25 UTC by WOLfgang Schricker
Modified:	2016-12-29 15:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required:	---

Attachments
/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log (logstash-plain.log,1.06 KB, application/pgp-signature) 2016-12-26 18:25 UTC, WOLfgang Schricker	Details
View All Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Description WOLfgang Schricker 2016-12-26 18:25:20 UTC

ArgumentError: Path "/opt/logstash/data/queue" must be a writable directory. It is not writable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
# /etc/init.d/logstash start
 * Checking your configuration ...
Sending Logstash's logs to /var/log/logstash which is now configured via log4j2.properties
Configuration OK
[2016-12-26T18:20:34,073][INFO ][logstash.runner] Using config.test_and_exit mode. Config Validation Result: OK. Exiting Logstash [ ok ]
 * /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log: correcting mode
 * /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log: correcting owner
 * Starting logstash ...

# /etc/init.d/logstash stop
 * Stopping logstash ...
 * start-stop-daemon: no matching processes found

Comment 1 WOLfgang Schricker 2016-12-26 18:25:53 UTC

Created attachment 457446 [details]
/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log

Comment 2 Tomáš Mózes 2016-12-28 07:25:43 UTC

Thanks for the report.

This happens because logstash first checks the config as root and creates data/queue. Later, when you start logstash as non-root, it cannot access it.

Comment 3 Tomáš Mózes 2016-12-29 08:39:12 UTC

Should be fixed with this PR:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/3268

This will force update the permissions on all files in:
/opt/logstash/data
/var/log/logstash
/run/logstash

Comment 4 Tomáš Mózes 2016-12-29 15:15:04 UTC

Please try 5.1.1-r1.