What is this behavior in Windows 7: splunk list deploy-clients error ospath_fopen?

[sjwone]

I'm seeing the below behavior in a Windows 7 environment. Any ideas?

C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>.\splunk list deploy-clients
Operation "ospath_fopen" failed in .\conf-mutator-locking.c:254, conf_mutator_lo
ck(); No error

[esix_splunk]

YOu can stop splunk and run ' splunk clean locks' and that should fix this. However this is typical related to starting Splunk without proper permissions, or as a different user, and then restarting as the original user.

Another potential issue could be open file limits on the linux side.. not sure on the windows.

[sh254087]

I was getting similar error while trying to start the splunk service - "Operation "ospath_fopen" failed in /opt/splunk/src/libzero/conf-mutator-locking.c:338, conf_mutator_lock(); Permission denied" and the service start was failing.

Following your suggestion, tried - "<splunk_home>/bin/splunk clean locks" and tried starting the service. It worked without issues; service was started, and the Web UI came up as well. Many thanks to you.

Splunk Enterprise Version: 9.0.4.1

[cker]

Had same issue. Running powershell/cmd as admin user worked for me.

[ben_leung]

Also same issue with linux, version 5.0.3 universal forwarder

Operation "ospath_fopen" failed in /opt/splunk/p4/splunk/branches/5.0.3/src/libzero/conf-mutator-locking.c:254, conf_mutator_lock(); Permission denied