Xen Orchestra - Self install problems

[Adam]

Hi!

I've been following tutorial (https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/from_the_sources.html) to the letter.

Installed Debian Jessie 8.0, Node v.8, Yarn and all the repos (libvhdi-utils is not included in default Debian repositories, so I added two via this link: https://xen-orchestra.com/forum/topic/1222/problems-installing-packages-on-debian-8) then followed yarn, yarn build with any errors.

When I execute yarn start, I get the following:

adam@xoa-self:~/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server$ yarn start
yarn run v1.13.0
$ node bin/xo-server
  app-conf /home/adam/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/config.toml +0ms
  app-conf /home/adam/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/.xo-server.toml +6ms
2019-02-12T16:30:26.543Z - xo:main - [INFO] Configuration loaded.
2019-02-12T16:30:26.556Z - xo:main - [INFO] Web server listening on http://[::]:1024
2019-02-12T16:30:26.754Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [DEBUG] start start…
2019-02-12T16:30:28.504Z - xo:perf - [INFO] blocked for 1905ms
2019-02-12T16:30:28.608Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: spawn losetup ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:190:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:362:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
     errno: 'ENOENT',
     code: 'ENOENT',
     syscall: 'spawn losetup',
     path: 'losetup',
     spawnargs: [ '-D' ],
     stdout: '',
     stderr: '',
     failed: true,
     signal: null,
     cmd: 'losetup -D',
     timedOut: false,
     killed: false,
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [ CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {} ],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [ CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {} ] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.699Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.700Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.701Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.701Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.702Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.842Z - xo:xo-mixins:subjects - [INFO] Default user created: admin@admin.net with password admin
2019-02-12T16:30:28.843Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [DEBUG] start finished
2019-02-12T16:30:28.844Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [DEBUG] clean start…
2019-02-12T16:30:28.857Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook clean failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'
     errno: -13,
     code: 'EACCES',
     syscall: 'mkdir',
     path: '/var/lib/xo-server',
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [] } }
2019-02-12T16:30:28.869Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [DEBUG] clean finished
2019-02-12T16:30:29.113Z - xo:main - [INFO] Setting up / → /home/adam/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-web/dist

What is wrong?

Thanks,
Adam

[olivierlambert]

Read the output:

EACCES: permission denied mkdir '/var/lib/xo-server'

[Adam]

Olivier,

What are/ should be default permissions for /var/lib/xo-server?

Sorry, I misunderstood. What are/ should be default permissions for /var/lib?

[olivierlambert]

I can't answer, it depends with which user you decide to start xo-server

[Adam]

ok, I see. Is it wise to add manually folder /var/lib/xo-server and change permissions for dedicated user?

I change the permissions and orchestra is working.

Do you have any idea about this error:

2019-02-12T16:30:28.608Z - xo:xo-mixins:hooks - [WARN] hook start failure:
{ error: 
   { Error: spawn losetup ENOENT
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:190:19)
    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:362:16)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:139:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
     errno: 'ENOENT',
     code: 'ENOENT',
     syscall: 'spawn losetup',
     path: 'losetup',
     spawnargs: [ '-D' ],
     stdout: '',
     stderr: '',
     failed: true,
     signal: null,
     cmd: 'losetup -D',
     timedOut: false,
     killed: false,
     [Symbol(originalCallSite)]: [ CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {} ],
     [Symbol(mutatedCallSite)]: [ CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {}, CallSite {} ] } }

it seems it not connected with permissions issue.

[olivierlambert]

It's different but it's just a warning regarding losetup.

[Adam]

Thanks! Really appreciate!