[SOLVED] Novnc wont start - no such file or directory - python

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Hello,

For some reason I am getting a strange error when executing “novnc-server start” on my centos 8, ONe5.10.1 clusters.

I am receiving:

INFO – : Starting VNC proxy: python /usr/share/one/websockify/run --target-config=/var/lib/one/sunstone_vnc_tokens 29876
ERROR – : No such file or directory - python

I can execute the python command, but it fails unless i make an alias of python for python3.
When I successfully run the command, it seems like the server is running as there is an open port, but sunstone complains that the novnc proxy is not running.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi,

This is resolved by:

ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python

or:

alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

And then restarting the services.

It seems that line 154 in https://github.com/OpenNebula/one/blob/master/src/sunstone/OpenNebulaVNC.rb is the issue, as rhel8/centos8 changed default python to python3
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It would be super duper cool if ONe checks how python is being called in the ruby script, but if you don’t I don’t blame you, as ONe is mostly ruby, and this seems to be an administrator issue. Unfortunately, RHEL/CentOS 8 ootb usage of versioned python is not flexible as, for example, Python - Gentoo wiki .

It may be prudent to add a snippet regarding python versioning under:
http://docs.opennebula.org/5.10/deployment/opennebula_installation/frontend_installation.html#installing-on-centos-rhel
As opposed to rewriting ONe code.

Thanks!

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