[Bug]: Debian package for 2.12 is not setting correct owner for folders

[drewmiranda-gl]

Describe the bug

When installing opensearch, the following folders must be owned by user opensearch:

• /var/lib/opensearch
• /var/log/opensearch
• /etc/opensearch

However, when installing OpenSearch on ubuntu (both via downloading the .deb file and via the package repo), the owner of the above folders is user root. This causes the opensearch service to fail on start.

To reproduce

Install opensearch 2.12

Expected behavior

Correct folder owners are set

Screenshots

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Host / Environment

Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS

Additional context

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Relevant log output

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[drewmiranda-gl]

Digging more into this, it looks like what happens is that the postinst is failing to continue past the execution of install_demo_configuration.sh

[drewmiranda-gl]

Closing as this appears to be working as designed. However I would consider this a documentation issue and a breaking change that wasn't very clear.

If anyone finds this, i found this works:

sudo OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(pwgen 32 1 -ny) apt-get -y install opensearch

(assumes pwgen is installed via apt install -y pwgen)