OSD refusing to start with "ERROR: osd init failed: (1) Operation not permitted", Why ?

Issue

• OSD refusing to start with "ERROR: osd init failed: (1) Operation not permitted"
• We have an OSD that is down and refuses to start. Pasting a snippet of the OSD log:

2014-11-13 02:32:32.380964 7f977fd87780  1 journal _open /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-289/journal fd 21: 10736369664 bytes, block size 4096 bytes, directio = 1, aio = 1
2014-11-13 02:32:32.393814 7f977fd87780  1 journal _open /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-289/journal fd 21: 10736369664 bytes, block size 4096 bytes, directio = 1, aio = 1
2014-11-13 02:32:42.105930 7f977fd87780  1 journal close /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-289/journal
2014-11-13 02:32:42.112233 7f977fd87780 -1  ** ERROR: osd init failed: (1) Operation not permitted