Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1335410
Failed to run virt-who-password command in rhev-hypervisor7-ng
Last modified: 2016-08-23 17:07:36 EDT
Description of problem: execute virt-who-password command to create an encrypted_password, it will show error msg: " Keyfile /var/lib/virt-who/key doesn't exist and can't be created, rerun as root" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - rhev-hypervisor7-ng-3.6-20160506.0 - virt-who-0.14-9.el7.noarch - subscription-manager-1.15.9-15.el7.x86_64 - python-rhsm-1.15.4-5.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. deploy rhev-hypervisor7-ng-3.6-20160506.0 2. login rhev-h by root account 3. run virt-who-password and input "admin" # virt-who-password Password: Keyfile /var/lib/virt-who/key doesn't exist and can't be created, rerun as root Actual results: create encrypted_password failed Expected results: the encrypted_password value should be created normally Additional info:
This is caused by the fact that the filesystem is readonly in RHEV-H. Can be the file /var/lib/virt-who/key made writable? Or rather whole directory /var/lib/virt-who/? virt-who uses this directory for its internal files which are required for its correct operation. Thanks.
This bug appeared on RHEV-H NG which has a writable filesystem on /var. Thus it is not a read-only problem. Eko, do you have a traceback or more detailed logs?
Fabian, I checked it again with rhev-hypervisor7-ng-3.6-20160518.0.x86_64. can't reproduce this issue any more. verified it.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-1702.html