AWX 17.0.0 Fresh Install fails on creation of .awx/awxcompose directory

[jpronans]

ISSUE TYPE

• Installation fails.

SUMMARY

Running ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml with defaults fails.

User:
awx@ubuntu:~/awx/installer$ id
uid=1001(awx) gid=1001(awx) groups=1001(awx),27(sudo),117(docker)

ENVIRONMENT

• AWX version: 17.0.0
• AWX install method: docker on linux
• Ansible version: 2.9.6
• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04.1
• Web Browser: N/A

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Add a password to inventory (no other changes).
Attempt installation as unprivileged user (that is in the docker group)

ansible-playbook -i inventory install.yml

EXPECTED RESULTS

Installation to complete.

ACTUAL RESULTS

TASK [local_docker : Create ~/.awx/awxcompose directory] ***********************
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "There was an issue creating /home/awx/.awx/awxcompose as requested: [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/home/awx/.awx/awxcompose'", "path": "/home/awx/.awx/awxcompose"}

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Simple fix (for me) was to put postgres_data_dir and docker_compose_dir to two separate locations.

~/.awx becomes owned by root which prevents the installer from creating the awxcompose directory with awx:awx ownership.

[sean-m-sullivan]

I am also experiencing this issue, using github runner to standup an awx for collection testing, and get the following

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "There was an issue creating /home/runner/.awx/awxcompose as requested: [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/home/runner/.awx/awxcompose'", "path": "/home/runner/.awx/awxcompose"}

when installer run as sudo

failed: [localhost] (item={u'mode': u'0600', u'file': u'environment.sh'}) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "checksum": "18957af76126a0769a3d66e4e5a62ff17144eed2", "item": {"file": "environment.sh", "mode": "0600"}, "msg": "Destination directory /root/.awx/awxcompose does not exist"}

[shanemcd]

@rooftopcellist Can you take a look at this on Monday? It seems fresh installs may be broken after one of your recent PRs.

[rooftopcellist]

As mentioned, the issue is that the .awx directory's permissions get restricted to root at some point. @sean-m-sullivan @jpronans As a work-around, you can chown the .awx directory (default path is ~/.awx) to be owned by the non-root user that you run the playbook as.

I will figure out a more permanent fix for this, but that will make the installer run to completion and install AWX 17.0.0.

[rooftopcellist]

The fix for this is merged and will be in AWX 17.0.1.

[sean-m-sullivan]

Wanted to follow up, was able to test this and has solved the problem, thanks for getting it done!