# Timeout creating project on AWS

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/timeout-creating-project-on-aws/6119>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/timeout-creating-project-on-aws/6119 "2020-08-19T19:01:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yasir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9f8e36/32.png) [@yasir](https://community.dremio.com/u/yasir)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/timeout-creating-project-on-aws/6119/1 "2020-08-19T19:01:16Z")

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Hi  
I have deployed dremio from AWS marketplace and trying to create my first project, but the project creation is stopping half way and the following is logged on the EC2 instance.

> 2020-08-19 18:17:44,103 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Mount target available.  
> 2020-08-19 18:17:44,103 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Mounting EFS  
> 2020-08-19 18:17:44,103 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Executing command, bash -c sudo mkdir -p /var/dremio\_efs  
> 2020-08-19 18:17:44,118 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - Executing command, bash -c sudo mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2,noresvport 172.31.45.136:/ /var/dremio\_efs  
> 2020-08-19 18:22:07,510 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - wait time for current retry is 1000 milliseconds  
> 2020-08-19 18:22:07,510 [aws-project-action-pool1] INFO c.dremio.dac.server.AwsConfigurator - retried one more time

 ![dremio_1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/dremio/original/2X/0/07a9f6add90115852962be4ea09026da827c053b.png)

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**Author:** ![yasir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9f8e36/32.png) [@yasir](https://community.dremio.com/u/yasir)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 11:15am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/timeout-creating-project-on-aws/6119/2 "2020-08-20T11:15:11Z")

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Some errors relating to permissions

Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 systemd: Started Dremio Daemon Server.  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 systemd: Starting Dremio Daemon Server…  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/dremio/log’: Permission denied  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: starting dremio  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: /opt/dremio/bin/dremio: line 125: /opt/dremio/log/server.out: No such file or directory  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: /opt/dremio/bin/dremio: line 126: /opt/dremio/log/server.out: No such file or directory  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/dremio/run’: Permission denied  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: /opt/dremio/run not found or dremio does not have access to it.  
Aug 20 10:30:28 ip-172-31-37-239 dremio: Please create /opt/dremio/run and/or give the user dremio ownership to the directory.

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:21am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/timeout-creating-project-on-aws/6119/3 "2020-08-23T06:21:26Z")

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@yasir

Please send us output of

ls -ld /opt/dremio  
ls -l /opt/dremio  
ls -ld /opt/dremio/log  
ls -l /opt/dremio/log  
ls -ld /opt/dremio/run  
ls -l /opt/dremio/run