[AMBARI-17116] Ambari-agent could not successfully restart on non-root after running as root

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0
• Assignee: Andrew Onischuk
• Reporter: Andrew Onischuk
• Created: 08/Jun/16 12:07
• Updated: 08/Jun/16 22:02
• Resolved: 08/Jun/16 13:19

Description

The issue is caused QE restarting ambari-agent and after it is stopped it
cannot start with:

Restarting ambari-agent
Verifying Python version compatibility...
Using python /usr/bin/python
ambari-agent is not running. No PID found at /var/run/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.pid
Verifying Python version compatibility...
Using python /usr/bin/python
Checking for previously running Ambari Agent...
Starting ambari-agent
/usr/sbin/ambari-agent: line 172: /var/log/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.out: Permission denied
Verifying ambari-agent process status...
ERROR: ambari-agent start failed. For more details, see /var/log/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.out:
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tail: cannot open ‘/var/log/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.out’ for reading: Permission denied
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Agent out at: /var/log/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.out
Agent log at: /var/log/ambari-agent/ambari-agent.log

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