Sosreport fails to complete with the Error "IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted" (Doc ID 2689611.1)

Last updated on JULY 13, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

 While running sosreport , the following error is seen

Finishing plugins [Running: systemtap]
Finished running plugins
Creating compressed archive...
[archive:TarFileArchive] xz: /var/tmp/sos.aRnqtR/sosreport-dnpx7001-2020-07-08-bfgphzr.tar: Operation not permitted

[archive:TarFileArchive] bzip2: Can't open input file /var/tmp/sos.aRnqtR/sosreport-dnpx7001-2020-07-08-bfgphzr.tar: Operation not permitted.

[archive:TarFileArchive] gzip: /var/tmp/sos.aRnqtR/sosreport-dnpx7001-2020-07-08-bfgphzr.tar: Operation not permitted

[archive:TarFileArchive] An error occurred compressing the archive: gzip /var/tmp/sos.aRnqtR/sosreport-dnpx7001-2020-07-08-bfgphzr.tar exited with 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/sbin/sosreport", line 19, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1384, in main
sos.execute()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1364, in execute
return self.final_work()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1262, in final_work
checksum = self._create_checksum(archive, hash_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sos/sosreport.py", line 1194, in _create_checksum
archive_fp = open(archive, 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/var/tmp/sos.aRnqtR/sosreport-dnpx7001-2020-07-08-bfgphzr.tar' <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Cause

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