AWS Greengrass daemon failed to start in Amazon Linux

Question

I am trying to setup AWS Greengrass core on Amazon Linux with respect to the documentation(followed all the prerequisites) of AWS(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/greengrass/latest/developerguide/start-core.html).

I am getting the below error on starting the Greengrass core daemon

 ./greengrassd start
Setting up greengrass daemon
Validating execution environment
Found cgroup subsystem: cpuset
Found cgroup subsystem: cpu
Found cgroup subsystem: cpuacct
Found cgroup subsystem: blkio
Found cgroup subsystem: memory
Found cgroup subsystem: devices
Found cgroup subsystem: freezer
Found cgroup subsystem: net_cls
Found cgroup subsystem: perf_event
Found cgroup subsystem: net_prio
Found cgroup subsystem: hugetlb
Found cgroup subsystem: pids

Starting greengrass daemon
Greengrass daemon 23933 failed to start
Failed to create overlay fs for container rootfs no such file or directory

I could not find any troubleshooting method for this and I am stuck in the middle of the process. It would be more helpful If any of you solved for me.

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Remotec Remotec · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-10T14:38:08

Have you tried executing the ./greengrassd start command using sudo ?

When I omit sudo I can an error that says this command needs to be run with using sudo e.g.

sudo ./greengrassd start

AWS Greengrass daemon failed to start in Amazon Linux

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