'ceph -s' fails to run with "ERROR: missing keyring, cannot use cephx for authentication" even though the admin keyring exists and is readable

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Issue

  • When running ceph -s or any other ceph commands, the commands fail to run with the following output:
$ sudo ceph -s
2015-07-07 12:27:34.049719 7f19f1653700 -1 monclient(hunting): ERROR: missing keyring, cannot use cephx for authentication
2015-07-07 12:27:34.049723 7f19f1653700  0 librados: client.admin initialization error (2) No such file or directory
  • The admin keyring exists and is readable by root:
$ ll /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring 
-rw------- 1 root root 63 Jul  7 12:28 /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
$ sudo cat /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring 
[client.admin]
    key = AQASB5NVsLbjIxAAAZ7D7SwX6MAS18G+zg2bHw==

Environment

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

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