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user3203755
user3203755

Reputation: 21

Trouble installing elasticsearch

while doing $sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-0.90.10.deb

it gives the following error :

Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up elasticsearch (0.90.10) ... chown: cannot access `/etc/elasticsearch/*': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing elasticsearch (--install): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Errors were encountered while processing: elasticsearch

directory /etc/elasticsearch exists and I am not able to gather proper reason for it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1705

Answers (2)

AnthonyT
AnthonyT

Reputation: 481

I didn't have any files in /etc/elasticsearch didn't have any files in it and thus caused an error. Just put a file in the directory and it will do the update or install file;

sudo touch /etc/elasticsearch/tmp

Upvotes: 2

alr
alr

Reputation: 1804

the call in the installation script, which seems to fail, is actually

chown -Rh root:root /etc/elasticsearch/*

which is extremely strange. The only thing I can imagine right now, is that you were not having proper privileges (can you show the permissions of /etc/elasticsearch - do you have any subdirectories inside it? If so, are those allowed to be accessed (is the executable flag set)? The output of find /etc/elasticsearch -ls might be interesting

Does this also happen with newer versions of the debian package (0.90.11 or 1.0.0)? Also, which distribution are you using?

Upvotes: 0

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