Ocs agent failures on RHEL8/Alma Linux 8

Question

Hi,

I'm deploying ocs agent from epel rpm on Alma Linux 8 OS which is based on RHEL8 following the ocsinventory documentation. I have some trouble when executing the agent and many error messages:

[root@most6ltmb219 ~]# ocsinventory-agent

Mar 06 11:11:52 | /etc/multipath.conf does not exist, blacklisting all devices.
Mar 06 11:11:52 | You can run "/sbin/mpathconf --enable" to create
Mar 06 11:11:52 | /etc/multipath.conf. See man mpathconf(8) for more details
Mar 06 11:11:52 | DM multipath kernel driver not loaded

ERROR: An internal driver error occurred
ERROR: An internal driver error occurred
ERROR: Error resolving target specification '' (No targets match target specification), specified in query 'PrimeOutputsData'.

Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Ocsinventory/Agent/Backend/OS/Linux/Videos.pm line 44.
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Ocsinventory/Agent/Backend/OS/Linux/Videos.pm line 45.
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Ocsinventory/Agent/Backend/OS/Linux/Videos.pm line 46.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Ocsinventory/Agent/Backend/OS/Linux/Videos.pm line 52.

Datas are uploaded to the server but as the command is run with root privileges, all these messages are worrisome. Multipath is not setup but the software is a requiered dependancy for some virtualization tools.
Thanks for your advices
Patrick

Answer 1

This is not an answer but an additionnal problem:
launching ocsinventory-agent on a C6100 server running Alma Linux 8.7 returns:

[root@ekman ~]# ocsinventory-agent -i -f
error: While opening repository /root/.local/share/flatpak/repo: opening repo: Invalid UTF-8
sh: line 1: 170829 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) monitor-get-edid-using-vbe --port 0 2> /dev/null

and the server crashes.

I'm using ocsinventory-agent-2.9.3-1.el8.x86_64 from from the rpm packaging.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Answer 2

Hi,

What's the content of ocsinventory-agent.log file ?