No valid plugins were enabled for sosreport

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • sosreport fails to run
user ~]$ sosreport 

sosreport (version 3.2)

no valid plugins were enabled
user ~]$ 
  • From the following command output it looks like the plugins require root
user ~]$ sosreport -l

sosreport (version 3.2)

No plugin enabled.

The following plugins are currently disabled:

 abrt                 requires root  Automatic Bug Reporting Tool
 acpid                requires root  ACPI daemon information
 activemq             requires root  ActiveMQ message broker
 anaconda             requires root  Anaconda installer
 anacron              requires root  Anacron job scheduling service
 apache               requires root  Apache http daemon
 ata                  requires root  ATA and IDE information
 auditd               requires root  Audit daemon information
 autofs               requires root  Autofs on-demand automounter
 block                requires root  Block device information
 boot                 requires root  Bootloader information
 ceph                 requires root  CEPH distributed storage
 cgroups              requires root  Control groups subsystem
 chrony               requires root  Chrony clock (for Network time protocol)
 cluster              requires root  Red Hat Cluster High Availability and GFS2
 cobbler              requires root  Cobbler installation server
 corosync             requires root  Corosync cluster engine
 cron                 requires root  Cron job scheduler
 certificatesystem    requires root  Certificate System and Dogtag
 ctdb                 requires root  Samba Clustered TDB
 cups                 requires root  CUPS IPP print service
 dbus                 requires root  D-Bus message bus
 devicemapper         requires root  device-mapper framework
 devices              requires root  devices specific commands
 dhcp                 requires root  DHCP daemon
 distupgrade          requires root  Distribution upgrade data
 dmraid               requires root  dmraid software RAID
 docker               requires root  Docker containers
 dovecot              requires root  dovecot server related information
 directoryserver      requires root  Directory Server
 etcd                 requires root  etcd plugin
 fcoe                 requires root  Fibre Channel over Ethernet
 filesys              requires root  Local file systems
 firewalld            requires root  Firewall daemon
 foreman              requires root  Foreman/Satellite 6 systems management
 gdm                  requires root  GNOME display manager
 general              requires root  general system information
 gluster              requires root  GlusterFS storage
 grub                 requires root  GRUB bootloader
 grub2                requires root  GRUB2 bootloader
 haproxy              requires root  HAProxy load balancer
 hardware             requires root  General hardware information
 hpasm                requires root  HP Advanced Server Management
 hardwaretestsuite    requires root  Red Hat Hardware Test Suite
 i18n                 requires root  Internationalization
 infiniband           requires root  Infiniband data
 ipa                  requires root  Identity, policy, audit
 iprconfig            requires root  IBM Power RAID storage adapter configuration information
 ipsec                requires root  Internet protocol security
 ipvs                 requires root  Linux IP virtual server
 iscsi                requires root  iSCSI initiator
 iscsitarget          requires root  iSCSI target
 java                 requires root  Java runtime
 kdump                requires root  Kdump crash dumps
 keepalived           requires root  Keepalived routing server
 kernel               requires root  Linux kernel
 kernelrt             requires root  Realtime kernel variant
 keyutils             requires root  Kernel key ring
 kimchi               requires root  kimchi-related information
 kpatch               requires root  Kpatch information
 krb5                 requires root  Kerberos authentication
 kubernetes           requires root  Kubernetes plugin
 kvm                  requires root  Kernel virtual machine
 last                 requires root  login information
 ldap                 requires root  LDAP configuration
 libraries            requires root  Dynamic shared libraries
 libvirt              requires root  libvirt virtualization API
 lilo                 requires root  Lilo bootloader
 logrotate            requires root  LogRotate service
 logs                 requires root  System logs
 lsbrelease           requires root  Linux standard base
 lvm2                 requires root  LVM2 volume manager
 md                   requires root  MD RAID subsystem
 megacli              requires root  LSI MegaRAID devices
 memory               requires root  Memory configuration and use
 mongodb              requires root  MongoDB document database
 mpt                  requires root  LSI Message Passing Technology
 mrggrid              requires root  MRG GRID engine
 mrgmessg             requires root  MRG Messaging subsystem
 multipath            requires root  Device-mapper multipath tools
 mysql                requires root  MySQL and MariaDB RDBMS
 named                requires root  BIND named server
 navicli              requires root  EMC Navicli
 networking           requires root  network and device configuration
 nfs                  requires root  Network file system information
 nfsserver            requires root  NFS server information
 nis                  requires root  Network information service
 nscd                 requires root  Name service caching daemon
 ntp                  requires root  Network time protocol
 numa                 requires root  NUMA state and configuration
 oddjob               requires root  OddJob task scheduler
 openhpi              requires root  Open Hardware Platform Interface
 openshift            requires root  Openshift node and broker
 openssl              requires root  openssl related information
 openstack_ceilometer requires root  Openstack Ceilometer
 openstack_cinder     requires root  OpenStack cinder
 openstack_glance     requires root  OpenStack Glance
 openstack_heat       requires root  OpenStack Heat
 openstack_horizon    requires root  OpenStack Horizon
 openstack_keystone   requires root  OpenStack Keystone
 openstack_neutron    requires root  OpenStack Networking
 openstack_nova       requires root  OpenStack Nova
 openstack_sahara     requires root  OpenStack sahara related information for Red Hat distributions.
 openstack_swift      requires root  OpenStack Swift
 openstack_trove      requires root  OpenStack Trove
 openswan             requires root  Openswan IPsec
 openvswitch          requires root  OpenVSwitch networking
 ovirt                requires root  oVirt Engine
 ovirt_hosted_engine  requires root  oVirt Hosted Engine
 pam                  requires root  Pluggable Authentication Modules
 pci                  requires root  PCI devices
 pcp                  requires root  Performance Co-Pilot data
 postfix              requires root  Postfix smtp server
 postgresql           requires root  PostgreSQL RDBMS
 powerpath            requires root  EMC PowerPath
 powerpc              requires root  IBM Power systems
 ppp                  requires root  Point-to-point protocol
 process              requires root  process information
 processor            requires root  CPU information
 psacct               requires root  Process accounting information
 ptp                  requires root  Precision time protocol
 puppet               requires root  Puppet service
 pxe                  requires root  PXE service
 python               requires root  Python runtime
 qpid                 requires root  Qpid messaging
 quagga               requires root  Quagga routing service
 rabbitmq             requires root  RabbitMQ messaging service
 radius               requires root  RADIUS service information
 rhui                 requires root  Red Hat Update Infrastructure
 rpm                  requires root  RPM Package Manager
 s390                 requires root  IBM S/390
 samba                requires root  Samba Windows interoperability
 sanlock              requires root  SANlock daemon
 saphana              requires root  SAP HANA
 sapnw                requires root  SAP NetWeaver
 sar                  requires root  System Activity Reporter
 satellite            requires root  RHN Satellite and Spacewalk
 scsi                 requires root  SCSI devices
 selinux              requires root  SELinux access control
 sendmail             requires root  sendmail service
 services             requires root  System services
 smartcard            requires root  PKCS#11 smart cards
 snmp                 requires root  Simple network management protocol
 soundcard            requires root  Sound devices
 squid                requires root  Squid caching proxy
 ssh                  requires root  Secure shell service
 ssmtp                requires root  sSMTP information
 sssd                 requires root  System security service daemon
 sunrpc               requires root  Sun RPC service
 symcli               requires root  EMC Symcli
 system               requires root  core system information
 systemd              requires root  System management daemon
 systemtap            requires root  SystemTap dynamic instrumentation
 sysvipc              requires root  SysV IPC
 teamd                requires root  Network interface teaming
 tftpserver           requires root  TFTP server
 tomcat               requires root  Apache Tomcat server
 tuned                requires root  Tuned system tuning daemon
 udev                 requires root  udev dynamic device management
 upstart              requires root  Upstart init system
 usb                  requires root  USB devices
 veritas              requires root  Veritas software
 vhostmd              requires root  vhostmd virtualization metrics collection
 virsh                requires root  client for libvirt virtualization API
 vmware               requires root  VMWare client information
 vsftpd               requires root  Vsftpd server
 x11                  requires root  X windowing system
 xen                  requires root  Xen virtualization
 xfs                  requires root  XFS filesystem
 xinetd               requires root  xinetd information
 yum                  requires root  yum information

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