Anyone else seeing clients not restarting after a deployment server push?

[imacdonald2]

I have a very simple example

[serverClass:ash-etl]
whitelist.0=server1

[serverClass:ash-etl:app:etl]
stateOnClient=enabled
restartSplunkd=True

[serverClass:ash-etl:app:fwd_to_splunk]
stateOnClient=enabled
restartSplunkd=True

When I change the verison in the app

[ui]
is_visible = 0
label = etl

[launcher]
author=Ian
description=Etl
version=1.5

The client downloads it but I get a ton of errors in the logs

01-09-2012 17:38:27.834 -0500 INFO  DeployedApplication - Downloaded url: 10.20.2.28:8089/services/streams/deployment?name=default:ash-etl:etl to file: /opt/splunk/var/run/ash-etl/etl-1326148643.bundle
01-09-2012 17:38:27.835 -0500 WARN  DeployedApplication - Installing app: etl to location: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl
01-09-2012 17:38:27.839 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.839 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot initialize: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta
01-09-2012 17:38:27.858 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.858 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot load to modify: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta
01-09-2012 17:38:27.858 -0500 ERROR DeployedApplication - Failed to install app : /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl. Cannot update application info: /nobody/etl/app/install/state = enabled: Metadata could not be written: /nobody/etl/app/install/state: {  }, removable: yes
01-09-2012 17:38:27.858 -0500 WARN  DeployedServerClass - There was a problem installing app: etl for server class: ash-etl
01-09-2012 17:38:27.861 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.861 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot initialize: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta
01-09-2012 17:38:27.924 -0500 WARN  DeployedApplication - Installing app: etl to location: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl
01-09-2012 17:38:27.929 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.929 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot initialize: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta
01-09-2012 17:38:27.948 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.948 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot load to modify: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta
01-09-2012 17:38:27.948 -0500 ERROR DeployedApplication - Failed to install app : /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl. Cannot update application info: /nobody/etl/app/install/state = enabled: Metadata could not be written: /nobody/etl/app/install/state: {  }, removable: yes
01-09-2012 17:38:27.948 -0500 WARN  DeployedServerClass - There was a problem installing app: etl for server class: ash-etl
01-09-2012 17:38:27.951 -0500 ERROR IniFile - Cannot open ini file for parsing: No such file or directory
01-09-2012 17:38:27.951 -0500 ERROR ConfObjectManagerDB - Cannot initialize: /opt/splunk/etc/apps/etl/metadata/local.meta

I never see splunk reloading even though it has restartSplunkd=True, and the directory has been updated and has the new app version in the app.conf

I am running a fairly new version of the splunk 4.2

[yannK · Accepted solution]

Known Bug on Splunk 4.2.4/4.2.5
see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/ReleaseNotes/Knownissues#Distributed_deployment.2...

Under certain circumstances when deploying apps in 4.2.4, the deployment client will return the following error message: Cannot update application info: /nobody/appname/app/install/state = enabled: Metadata could not be written: /nobody/appname/app/install/state: { }, removable: yes. The workaround is to create a file and folder /metadata/local.meta in the installation tree of the app that the deployment server is deploying. (SPL-45019)

[edit]

to clarify the workaround :

if the problem is occurring with the app : myapp
on the deployment server on linux, do

mkdir $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps/myapp/metadata/
touch $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-apps/myapp/metadata/local.meta

it will create an empty local.meta file

then reload the deployment server
$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk reload deploy-server

[imacdonald2]

I have been banging my head against the wall over this all day.

[pavanae]

I seen the same issue occurred in splunk 6.1.3.. and i did the same as you mentioned..But still i am unable to see any difference..I am still not able to see the logs..