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Unable to start splunkweb

mcculloh
New Member

Trying to start a local install of the free splunk server on a red hat machine running linux 2.6.32. I am getting errors when the web service tries to start up, it seems unable to find some modules, but its not clear what needs to be configured correctly here.

This is error from the log:

2013-04-03 11:56:37,369 ERROR   [515c7b653a2845610] root:554 - Unable to start splunkweb
2013-04-03 11:56:37,369 ERROR   [515c7b653a2845610] root:555 - Empty module name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/root.py", line 106, in <module>
    from controllers.top import *
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/top.py", line 13, in <module>
    from admin import AdminController
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/admin.py", line 17, in <module>
    from splunk.appserver.mrsparkle.controllers.appinstall import AppInstallController
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/appinstall.py", line 9, in <module>
    from splunk.appserver.mrsparkle.lib import cached, module
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 461, in <module>
    moduleMapper = ModuleMapper()
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 79, in __init__
    self.installedModules = self.getInstalledModules()
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 24, in helper
    return f(*a, **kw)
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 444, in getInstalledModules
    mods = self.getModuleList(root)
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 33, in helper
    return f(*a, **kw)
  File "/home/testsplunk/splunk/lib/python2.7/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/module.py", line 219, in getModuleList
    mod = __import__(modname)
ValueError: Empty module name
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Kate_Lawrence-G
Contributor

try downloading the .tgz file from the site and extracting in the /opt directory as root.

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Kate_Lawrence-G
Contributor

root ownership is not necessary but installation as root is. You can change the ownership after the fact if necessary:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com//answers/82021/unable-to-start-splunkweb

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mcculloh
New Member

But this is in a local directory and owned by the user who is running it. I don't think root ownership is necessary at all. Since all of this is self contained, right?

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