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StorageGRID Log Collection Fails with "Problem with Definition for Item Lumberjack::CollectionList::Files" Error on a Single Node

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Issue

  • Log collection initiated from Grid Manager fails for a single node with the following error: Lumberjack log collection failed for NODE_NAME: Failed to execute sh command with 'lumberjack.rb --start 2026-07-01T08:10:00.000Z --end 2026-07-01T08:30:00.000Z --application --audit 2>&1' on NODE_NAME - 1,Problem with definition for item L...

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  • Running lumberjack.rb manually with any log type (application, audit or prometheus) also fails with the following error:
root@NODE_NAME:~ # lumberjack.rb --start 2026-06-30T14:00:00.000Z \ --end 2026-06-30T14:10:00.000Z \ --audit
Time range to collect: 2026-06-30  14:00:00 to 2026-07-01 10:34:05 (20.6 hours)
Problem with definition for item Lumberjack::CollectionList::Files(/var/local/tmp/object-tracker/object-tracker_all_17Dec2024T190255/object-tracker_all_gdp-noncomp-tpc-dev-8_FileIngestion_ParquetJob_GDP_ADCCJ5T_ALL_DATATYPES_500COL_TEST_2024-12-11T13:48:54.590097Z_data___magic_job-d1eeee38-6e4e-413c-a010-1144963c42b1_tasks_attempt_2....json,state-files//var/local/tmp/object-tracker/object-tracker_all_17Dec2024T190255/object-tracker_all_gdp-noncomp-tpc-dev-8_FileIngestion_ParquetJob_GDP_ADCCJ5T_ALL_DATATYPES_500COL_TEST_2024-12-11T13:48:54.590097Z_data___magic_job-d1eeee38-6e4e-413c-a010-1144963c42b1_tasks_attempt_2....json,,,,):
Ellipsis must appear only at the end of path in field "CollectionList::Files destination".
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:107:in `validate_ellipsis'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:91:in `validate_files'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:71:in `validate'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:13:in `block in validate_items'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:13:in `each'
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/lumberjack/collection_list_validator.rb:13:in `validate_items'
/usr/local/sbin/lumberjack.rb:123:in `main'
/usr/local/sbin/lumberjack.rb:172:in `<main>'
  • Log collection succeeds from other StorageGRID nodes using both Grid Manager and the lumberjack.rb command.​‌

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