When attempting to run katello from the init.d katello script it fails silently with no rails process. Starting it manually as the katello user reveals some problems: # runuser -s /bin/bash katello bash-4.2$ cd /usr/lib/katello/ bash-4.2$ /usr/lib/katello/script/rails s -p 3000 -e production => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.5 application starting in production on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server Exiting /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:208:in `initialize': Permission denied - /usr/lib/katello/tmp/pids/server.pid (Errno::EACCES) Fix perm on /usr/lib/katello/tmp/pids/server.pid which is owned by root:root after RPM is installed and you get: bash-4.2$ /usr/lib/katello/script/rails s -p 3000 -e production => Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.0.5 application starting in production on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server remove tmp/sass-cache/ remove public/stylesheets/compiled/print.css Exiting /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:209:in `delete': Permission denied - /usr/lib/katello/tmp/pids/server.pid (Errno::EACCES) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/server.rb:209:in `write_pid' from /usr/lib/katello/script/rails:81 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/actions.rb:72:in `unlink': Permission denied - /usr/lib/katello/public/stylesheets/compiled/sections/dashboard.css (Errno::EACCES) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/actions.rb:72:in `remove' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/compiler.rb:80:in `clean!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/compiler.rb:79:in `each' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/compiler.rb:79:in `clean!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/configuration/helpers.rb:141:in `handle_configuration_change!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/app_integration/rails.rb:61:in `initialize!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/app_integration/rails/actionpack3/railtie.rb:43 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `instance_exec' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/initializable.rb:25:in `run' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/initializable.rb:50:in `run_initializers' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `each' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/initializable.rb:49:in `run_initializers' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/application.rb:134:in `initialize!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `send' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.0.5/lib/rails/application.rb:77:in `method_missing' from /usr/lib/katello/config/environment.rb:5 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:596:in `new_constants_in' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:225:in `load_dependency' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.0.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:239:in `require' from /usr/lib/katello/config.ru:3 from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `instance_eval' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.1.0/lib/rack/builder.rb:46:in `initialize' from /usr/lib/katello/config.ru:1:in `new' from /usr/lib/katello/config.ru:1
Further errors as jammit attempts to recompile css: remove tmp/sass-cache/ Exiting /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/compass-0.11.5/lib/compass/actions.rb:72:in `unlink': Permission denied - /usr/lib/katello/public/stylesheets/compiled/sections/dashboard.css (Errno::EACCES) This I will solve with a jammit command in the specfile ...
Mike, are you sure you *did not* previously run katello under root? I have suspicion that you did. Because normally the /usr/lib/katello/tmp/folder is writable for the katello user. If you run it under root the pid file will be created as root (and cannot be overwritten using the normal account then). I guess this is invalid, or dupe of 725793 which I am going to solve by the jammit command right now. I am closing this, please re-open if you still need a fix. I will test this scenario anyway.