Elastic-agent-control.sock: operation not supported on socket

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Hey there,
I have an Elasticsearch and Kibana instance running via Docker images (I have configured the secure option). Now I am trying to install the elastic-agent to start the Fleet Server but I am facing this error:

Error: failed to copy source directory (/Users/aaa/Work/ELK/elastic-agent-7.15.0-darwin-x86_64) to destination (/Library/Elastic/Agent): open /Users/aaa/Work/ELK/elastic-agent-7.15.0-darwin-x86_64/data/tmp/elastic-agent-control.sock: operation not supported on socket

I downloaded the elastic-agent version for Mac and I am using the install command copied from Fleet UI.
Command is running using sudo directive. Is there anyone can help me?

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Did you just unpack the directory and then run install or run anything before?

What version of OS X are you running?

@blaker I remember we had some previous discussions around permissions on OS X needed?

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hi @ruflin
just unpack and run the command
Mac version is Big Sure 11.5.2

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Hm, one thing that came to mind is maybe in the Security settings in OS X you would need to grant Elastic Agent more premissions but I don't think this it.

Could you share the exact install command you were running?

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I don't have any specifics to offer yet, but generally - I might ask:

  • are you running this locally, live on the Big Sur host or is it via a tool like Ansible? Or over SSH in terminal?

  • Attaching a non-Docker Fleet Server into the Docker based stack with correct networking / permissions sounds like a possible source of the problem - did you mind to share any docker.compose file you used? there will be some public examples in our Elastic repos about doing this, that may help

  • it is a long shot, but after a failed attempt, are there any files on the local macOS disk that could be cleaned up before trying again? I don't see anything about sockets in the Troubleshoot common problems | Fleet User Guide [7.15] | Elastic troubleshooting guide, but elsewhere for macOS the Agent docs will tell you where files on disk and you can remove them to clear cruft perhaps?

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