[CASSANDRA-12534] sstableverify tries to access commitlog directory and fails when running from a non-root/non-cassandra user

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Eduard Tudenhoefner
• Reporter: Wei Deng

Authors

Eduard Tudenhoefner

• Created: 24/Aug/16 19:48
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30

Description

Reproduced this against C* 3.0.8 code. See the following output (the automaton user running this command is not the user that runs the cassandra JVM process, so it cannot have access to the commit log directory):

automaton@0ce59d338-1:~$ sstableverify keyspace1 standard1
ERROR 19:38:37,674 Exiting due to error while processing commit log during initialization.
org.apache.cassandra.io.FSWriteError: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-6-1472067517651.log
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.<init>(CommitLogSegment.java:163) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.MemoryMappedSegment.<init>(MemoryMappedSegment.java:47) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.createSegment(CommitLogSegment.java:124) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegmentManager$1.runMayThrow(CommitLogSegmentManager.java:122) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) [cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_66]
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-6-1472067517651.log
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:177) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:287) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:335) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.CommitLogSegment.<init>(CommitLogSegment.java:158) ~[cassandra-all-3.0.8.1293.jar:3.0.8.1293]
	... 5 common frames omitted

This is the same issue that should be helped by CASSANDRA-9054.

Issue Links

• is part of: CASSANDRA-8616 sstable tools may result in commit log segments be written