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Title: User apache for httpd Describe the issue: User apache for httpd doesn't get created during rhevm installation during the installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Packages. While installing the packages (yum install rhevm) the httpd server gets installed but the user apache is missing afterwards. Following appears during the installation Installing : httpd-2.2.26-35.ep6.el6.x86_64 warning: user apache does not exist - using root warning: user apache does not exist - using root The engine-setup fails then [ INFO ] Restarting httpd [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Command '/sbin/service' failed to execute [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20140812152922-fsgfye.log [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20140812153255-setup.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed Suggestions for improvement: I've manually created the apache user and the engine-setup runs fine without errors. There is no information in the documentation describing this issue, this should be added or the user should be created during package installation. Additional information: I've recreated this by installing a new RHEL 6.5 server and then following the RHEV 3.4 documentation.
Hi Markus, the apache user should be created by the httpd RPM which RHEV depend on. Failure of any package RHEV rely upon should be fixed by the relevant package. So in this case you should open a bug for httpd so they will understand why the user wasn't created and fix it in their RPM.
I don't know what to add to the debate. Weinan/Permaine? Could we have a bug in the post-installation? AFAIK on RHEL5/6/7 Server distributions, the user is created (we test our rpms...).