Unable to create VPS in SolusVM 2: Could not open '/usr/local/solus/iso_images/8/config.iso': Permission denied

Symptoms

Attempt to create VPS in SolusVM 2 > Virtual Servers > Add Server failed - the following error is seen in SolusIO > Task > vm-create for the affected VPS:

CONFIG_TEXT: Could not open '/usr/local/solus/iso_images/8/config.iso': Permission denied

Cause

Incorrect permissions for /usr/local/solus/ and/or for /usr/local/solus/iso_images directories - they are different from below:

# ls -ld /usr/local/solus/
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 65 May 18 07:37 /usr/local/solus/
# ls -ld /usr/local/solus/iso_images/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Dec 27 01:01 /usr/local/solus/iso_images/

Resolution

1. Access affect SolusVM 2 Compute Resource via SSH.

2. Set correct permissions:

   # chmod 755 /usr/local/solus/ && chmod 0755 /usr/local/solus/iso_images/