Netdata Installer : $NETDATA_USER not defined ?

[alexisgunst]

Hi,

First, thanks for Netdata, it's amazing.
It seems that there is a probleme with the installer since several days.

Bug report summary

As root :

# wget https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh
# /bin/sh kickstart-static64.sh
(...)
 --- fix permissions --- 
[/opt/netdata]# chmod g+rx\,o+rx /opt 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chown -R : /opt/netdata 
 OK   

 --- fix plugin permissions --- 
[/opt/netdata]# chown root: usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/apps.plugin 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chmod 4750 usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/apps.plugin 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chown root: usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/cgroup-network 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chmod 4750 usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/cgroup-network 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chown root: bin/fping 
 OK   

[/opt/netdata]# chmod 4750 bin/fping 
 OK   

Then Netdata can't start again because of a permission issue.

[/tmp]# ll /opt/netdata/
total 32
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:38 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:38 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:37 include
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:37 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-configs -> etc/netdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-dbs -> var/lib/netdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-logs -> var/log/netdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   17 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-metrics -> var/cache/netdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-plugins -> usr/libexec/netdata
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 Apr  4 17:58 netdata-web-files -> usr/share/netdata/web
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    3 Apr  4 17:58 sbin -> bin
drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:37 share
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:38 system
drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr  4 17:58 usr
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr  4 09:38 var

=> Everything is root.

If I do

chown -R netdata: /opt/netdata

Then everything is fixed.

OS / Environment

Amazon Linux
Elastic Beanstalk

Netdata version (ouput of netdata -V)

netdata v1.14.0-rc0-29-nightly

[paulkatsoulakis]

Good morning and sorry for this inconvenience.
Netdata install process suffered a major refactor that unfortunately came at a cost.

A fix is on the way, i 'll let you know when we are ready for you to pull the fresh version and retry

[paulkatsoulakis]

I will resolve the issue once the new release is out available.
@alexisgunst as soon as i close the issue you are free to retry, it takes some time for the release to complete.

[paulkatsoulakis]

@alexisgunst you may re-download and reinstall.
My apologies for this inconvenience, we are working to eliminate such exposure to our customers in the future

[alexisgunst]

Thanks so much for your quick fix !
👍