# AWX installation struck/Hands

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-installation-struck-hands/37977>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** kubernetes, awx\
**Created:** [May 11, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-installation-struck-hands/37977 "2023-05-11T14:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![prabhu\_sridhar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@prabhu\_sridhar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/prabhu_sridhar)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-installation-struck-hands/37977/1 "2023-05-11T14:29:36Z")

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HI

AWX: 22.2.0  
Installation method: AWX operation 2.1.0  
K8s version:v1.25.6  
Kustomize Version: v4.5.7

AWX install on the K8s struck with following error.

I could see the operator started, however the startup hangs with following error.

Any idea what is causing the issue.

kubectl logs -f awx-operator-64c4654f59-6ffvm -n awx  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.4007862,“logger”:“cmd”,“msg”:“Version”,“Go Version”:“go1.18.9”,“GOOS”:“linux”,“GOARCH”:“amd64”,“ansible-operator”:“v1.26.0”,“commit”:“cbeec475e4612e19f1047ff7014342afe93f60d2”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.4011345,“logger”:“cmd”,“msg”:“Environment variable OPERATOR\_NAME has been deprecated, use --leader-election-id instead.”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.4011736,“logger”:“cmd”,“msg”:“Watching all namespaces.”,“Namespace”:“”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5565171,“logger”:“controller-runtime.metrics”,“msg”:“Metrics server is starting to listen”,“addr”:“:8080”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5582561,“logger”:“watches”,“msg”:“Environment variable not set; using default value”,“envVar”:“ANSIBLE\_VERBOSITY\_AWX\_AWX\_ANSIBLE\_COM”,“default”:2}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5583305,“logger”:“watches”,“msg”:“Environment variable not set; using default value”,“envVar”:“ANSIBLE\_VERBOSITY\_AWXBACKUP\_AWX\_ANSIBLE\_COM”,“default”:2}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5583746,“logger”:“watches”,“msg”:“Environment variable not set; using default value”,“envVar”:“ANSIBLE\_VERBOSITY\_AWXRESTORE\_AWX\_ANSIBLE\_COM”,“default”:2}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.558433,“logger”:“ansible-controller”,“msg”:“Watching resource”,“Options.Group”:“[awx.ansible.com](http://awx.ansible.com)”,“Options.Version”:“v1beta1”,“Options.Kind”:“AWX”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5586026,“logger”:“ansible-controller”,“msg”:“Watching resource”,“Options.Group”:“[awx.ansible.com](http://awx.ansible.com)”,“Options.Version”:“v1beta1”,“Options.Kind”:“AWXBackup”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5586476,“logger”:“ansible-controller”,“msg”:“Watching resource”,“Options.Group”:“[awx.ansible.com](http://awx.ansible.com)”,“Options.Version”:“v1beta1”,“Options.Kind”:“AWXRestore”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5598254,“logger”:“proxy”,“msg”:“Starting to serve”,“Address”:“127.0.0.1:8888”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5599494,“logger”:“apiserver”,“msg”:“Starting to serve metrics listener”,“Address”:“localhost:5050”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5601609,“msg”:“Starting server”,“kind”:“health probe”,“addr”:“[::]:6789”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.560222,“msg”:“Starting server”,“path”:“/metrics”,“kind”:“metrics”,“addr”:“[::]:8080”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.560285,“msg”:“Starting EventSource”,“controller”:“awx-controller”,“source”:“kind source: \*unstructured.Unstructured”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5603178,“msg”:“Starting EventSource”,“controller”:“awxrestore-controller”,“source”:“kind source: \*unstructured.Unstructured”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5603294,“msg”:“Starting Controller”,“controller”:“awx-controller”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5603545,“msg”:“Starting Controller”,“controller”:“awxrestore-controller”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5604515,“msg”:“Starting EventSource”,“controller”:“awxbackup-controller”,“source”:“kind source: \*unstructured.Unstructured”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.5604763,“msg”:“Starting Controller”,“controller”:“awxbackup-controller”}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.6610773,“msg”:“Starting workers”,“controller”:“awx-controller”,“worker count”:4}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.6611586,“msg”:“Starting workers”,“controller”:“awxbackup-controller”,“worker count”:4}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.6610878,“msg”:“Starting workers”,“controller”:“awxrestore-controller”,“worker count”:4}_  
_{“level”:“info”,“ts”:1683813505.6614382,“logger”:“reconciler”,“msg”:“Resource is terminated, skipping reconciliation”,“job”:“5254950640075734778”,“name”:“awx”,“namespace”:“awx”}_

Regards  
Prabhu