topic UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log? in Installation

UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

ojay — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:02:56 GMT

Hi all,

I'm trying to install a UF on Linux and the installation procedure stops the moment the administrator username is being requested

"Please enter an administrator username: "

I can not figure out what is going as it does not proceed and it seems to just be freezing.

Is there a log file that I can check on the installation progress? or errors?

Thanks,

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

isoutamo — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:30:03 GMT

Current versions expecting that you will enter an administrator account and it’s password there. If you don’t need/want those then use —no-prompt parameter when you are starting splunk first time.

r. Ismo

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

ojay — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 17:23:04 GMT

Thanks for the response.

I do enter a name and enter. After that it just doesnt do anything.

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

isoutamo — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 20:41:53 GMT

Then it should ask password for above account.

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

ojay — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:29:38 GMT

Yes exactly but it doesn't!

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

isoutamo — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:57:52 GMT

If you didn’t found anything from logs, can you try with —no-prompt and set admin user and password later on if you need those?

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

SRG9 — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 05:57:16 GMT

@ojay can you please try with following way?

create user-seed.conf file with following contents under $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/

[user_info]
USERNAME = admin
PASSWORD = <password>

and procedd with installtion
./splunk start --accept-license --answer-yes --no-prompt

Re: UF Installation does not proceed - Installation log?

isoutamo — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 09:51:27 GMT

If you are running this e.g. user splunk have you change ownership of /opt/splunkforwarder (or what is your splunk home) to this user? If not then when you are starting splunk, it cannot write to conf-files.

r. Ismo