[Q] Directory is not created when following the Pip install method

[itinneed2022]

Following the pip install, and working on the initial configuration webapp database setup, I'm running into an issue where the folders were not created after running the pip install commands:

(graphite) [root@graphite1 graphite]# PYTHONPATH=$GRAPHITE_ROOT/webapp django-admin.py migrate --settings=graphite.settings Could not import graphite.local_settings, using defaults! /opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/settings.py:360: UserWarning: SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in local_settings.py for better security warn('SECRET_KEY is set to an unsafe default. This should be set in local_settings.py for better security') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/graphite/bin/django-admin.py", line 5, in management.execute_from_command_line() File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 401, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 377, in execute django.setup() File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/init.py", line 24, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate app_config = AppConfig.create(entry) File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 90, in create module = import_module(entry) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/importlib/init.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 994, in _gcd_import File "", line 971, in _find_and_load File "", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 665, in _load_unlocked File "", line 678, in exec_module File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/functions/init.py", line 9, in from graphite.functions.params import Param, ParamTypes, ParamTypeAggFunc # noqa File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/functions/params.py", line 3, in from graphite.errors import InputParameterError File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/errors.py", line 2, in from graphite.logger import log File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/logger.py", line 96, in log = GraphiteLogger() # import-shared logger instance File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/logger.py", line 29, in init level = logging.DEBUG if settings.DEBUG else logging.INFO, File "/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/site-packages/graphite/logger.py", line 68, in _config_logger handler = Rotater(log_file, when=when, backupCount=backupCount) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py", line 202, in init BaseRotatingHandler.init(self, filename, 'a', encoding, delay) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/handlers.py", line 57, in init logging.FileHandler.init(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/init.py", line 1032, in init StreamHandler.init(self, self._open()) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/logging/init.py", line 1061, in _open return open(self.baseFilename, self.mode, encoding=self.encoding) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/storage/log/webapp/info.log'

Is there a step between the initial database setup and the pip install that I missed? This is just a centos 7 node.

[deniszh]

Could not import graphite.local_settings, using defaults!

Did you create local_settings.py file? Looks like it can't read it and falling back to some defaults and fail to properly set GRAPHITE_ROOT (which should be /opt/graphite by default and not /opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/). Or you can create /opt/graphite/lib/python3.6/storage/log/webapp/ directory and try again, but that doesn't look good.

[itinneed2022]

@deniszh That sounds like a step I missed somewhere. Where should I create that file and what goes into it?

[deniszh]

it should not be mandatory, default should be /opt/graphite - but it's not working for some reason on your system.

[itinneed2022]

I also have tried the from source version and it also fails on this step. Installing from source in a python3 virtualenv there is not a graphite directory under /opt/graphite/webapp. There is only a content directory.

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