Ran into this problem myself. Was able to resolve it with the following. Confirmed error and fix on 7.0.5 rpm -i splunk...rpm cd /opt/splunk chown -R splunkserviceacct ./ /opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start -user splunkserviceacct I believe this to have been occurring when splunk attempts to configure the directory as a different user ( permissions problem ). Splunk installs with account splunk, we use a service account, changed ownership to proper user and ran again, it worked. Hope this helps! ... View more

Yes works, minor change to caCertPath, it's now serverCert ... View more