topic Re: Exception: <class 'PermissionError'>, Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied in Installation

Why this error when upgrading "Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied"?

tb582 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 04:24:45 GMT

Upgrading to VERSION=8.0.4.1 I'm getting this error running as ROOT!!

Migrating to:

VERSION=8.0.4.1 BUILD=ab7a85abaa98 PRODUCT=splunk PLATFORM=Linux-x86_64 Copying '/opt/splunk/etc/myinstall/splunkd.xml' to '/opt/splunk/etc/myinstall/splunkd.xml-migrate.bak'. Checking saved search compatibility... Handling deprecated files... Checking script configuration... An unforeseen error occurred: Exception: <class 'PermissionError'>, Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/inputs.conf.tmp' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1353, in <module> sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1206, in main parseAndRun(argsList) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 1061, in parseAndRun retVal = cList.getCmd(command, subCmd).call(argList, fromCLI = True) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli.py", line 293, in call return self.func(args, fromCLI) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/control_api.py", line 30, in wrapperFunc return func(dictCopy, fromCLI) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/_internal.py", line 189, in firstTimeRun migration.autoMigrate(args[ARG_LOGFILE], isDryRun) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/migration.py", line 3094, in autoMigrate migInputs_3_3_0(migInputsConf, dryRun) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/migration.py", line 1682, in migInputs_3_3_0 comm.sed(policySearch, policyReplace, path, inPlace = True) File "/opt/splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli_common.py", line 1232, in sed outFile = open(tmpPath, 'w') PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/inputs.conf.tmp' Please file a case online at http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue Error running pre-start tasks

Root is how I always run the upgrade process yet never have run into this issue before!

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

The_Simko — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:11:51 GMT

1. Is Splunk offline?

2. Who owns the processes?

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

panguy — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:21:16 GMT

I had this same problem when upgrading Splunk.

After untaring the TGZ file to my $SPLUNK_HOME.

cd $SPLUNK_ROOT_DIR ls -lah

This confirmed the owner of the folder changed to 10777

I went ahead and ran this line to fix permissions

chown -R splunk:splunk $SPLUNK_HOME

In your case change the user to root.

Hope that helps.

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

smoir — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:48:18 GMT

Thanks panguy, this is exactly what I needed!

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

tgendron_splunk — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:30:15 GMT

I had the same problem going doing an upgrade from 8.2.4 to 8..5

I went to the directory where the permission error was shown at the end of the Traceback like this

f = open(path, 'w')

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/splunk/etc/system/local/indexes.conf'

Some of the files where read only so I did a chmod 660 * and that fixed it.

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Quadra — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 08:57:03 GMT

This also worked for me.
Upgrade from 9.0.4 to 9.1.1

Re: Exception: , Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied

felipecosta — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:18:32 GMT

This also worked for me.
Upgrade from 9.0.4 to 9.2.1