Error creating site user. ### CREATING SITE 'cmk' - Docker

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#1

Hello!

I have discovered this application that seems very interesting!

I want to test it in docker but I get this error:

**Error creating site user. **
### CREATING SITE ‘cmk’ - Docker

This is the statement that I execute:

sudo docker container run -dit -p 5555:5000 -p 7777:8000 --tmpfs /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp -v monitoring_checkmk:/omd/sites --name checkmk -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --restart always checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.1.0-latest

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

CMK version:
OS version:

Error message:

Output of “cmk --debug -vvn hostname”: (If it is a problem with checks or plugins)

#2

Can you try the unmodified command from the documentation and see, if that works?

docker container run -dit -p 8080:5000 -p 8000:8000 --tmpfs /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp:uid=1000,gid=1000 -v monitoring:/omd/sites --name monitoring -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --restart always checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.1.0-latest

I would not recommend changing the ports if you dont have to, as this will lead to confusion afterwards.

#4

I have busy ports:

docker: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint monitoring (beaef525e6f5c85937970641a5465676a260dc2550c76f8bb0b28d34ccf5355a): Bind for 0.0.0.0:8080 failed: port is already allocated.

#5

Hi,

If I change only the busy port and removing uid=1000,gid=1000. I get the same error.

sudo docker container run -dit -p 5555:5000 -p 8000:8000 --tmpfs /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp -v monitoring:/omd/sites --name monitoring -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --restart always checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.1.0-latest

CREATING SITE ‘cmk’
Error creating site user.

I’m using debian in a VM:

Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 9.13 (stretch)
Release: 9.13
Codename: stretch

Docker version 19.03.15, build 99e3ed8919
docker-compose version 1.23.1, build b02f1306

Thanks.

#6

Such old versions? I would first check with an up2date system if i have the same problems there.

#7

Right now I am upgrading to Debian 10.

I will report on the progress.

Thank you!

#8

I have finished installing Debian 10 and the same error :frowning:

Any ideas?

Thanks!

#9

I checked inside my Docker test system and it is working there without problem.

docker container run -dit -p 8080:5000 -p 8000:8000 --tmpfs /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp:uid=1000,gid=1000 -v monitoring:/omd/sites --name monitoring -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --restart always checkmk/check-mk-raw:2.1.0-latest

result

 docker logs monitoring
### CREATING SITE 'cmk'
Adding /opt/omd/sites/cmk/tmp to /etc/fstab.
Going to set TMPFS to off.
Temporary filesystem already mounted
Updating core configuration...
Generating configuration for core (type nagios)...
Precompiling host checks...OK
Executing post-create script "01_create-sample-config.py"...OK
Created new site cmk with version 2.1.0p24.cre.

  The site can be started with omd start cmk.
  The default web UI is available at http://cf125b78ecb4/cmk/

  The admin user for the web applications is cmkadmin with password: ZmYU4f7U
  For command line administration of the site, log in with 'omd su cmk'.
  After logging in, you can change the password for cmkadmin with 'cmk-passwd cmkadmin'.

WARNING: You have to execute 'omd update-apache-config cmk' as root to update and apply the configuration of the system apache.
WARNING: You have to execute 'omd update-apache-config cmk' as root to update and apply the configuration of the system apache.
### STARTING XINETD
 * Starting internet superserver xinetd                                                                                                                                         [ OK ]
### STARTING SITE
Temporary filesystem already mounted
Starting agent-receiver...OK
Starting mkeventd...OK
Starting rrdcached...OK
Starting npcd...OK
Starting nagios...OK
Starting apache...OK
Starting redis...OK
Initializing Crontab...OK
### STARTING CRON
### CONTAINER STARTED

Used Docker version was

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          23.0.1

One other point, is there a special reason to start the docker as root?
All my containers are started with normal user accounts.

#10

It looks like there are old containers of the Checkmk image running, and the volume is not empty.

Try to find old containers with docker ps -a, stop them if needed with docker stop, and remove them with docker rm.
Then, search for the volume with docker volume ls. If there is a line like "local monitoring, remove it with docker image rm monitoring`. After that, the unmodified start command from the Checkmk documentation should work. Do not omit the “uid=1000,gid=1000” options in the tmpfs directive.

If this does not work, install a fresh Debian 11 VM and try again.

#11

After updating to the version (23.0.1) you have @andreas-doehler, it worked for me the first time!

I am happy! Of course, I have to think about mounting Debian 11. :slight_smile:

Thank you very much everyone!

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