A Space Broke the Drata Agent

I recently ran into a simple but frustrating issue with Drata’s Agent for Linux. The agent wouldn’t start, and the logs showed this error:

LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
/opt/Drata
[FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(201)] Check failed: . : Invalid argument (22)

After checking ps to confirm the process wasn’t running and looking through system logs with dmesg and tail -f /var/log/*, I took a closer look at my autostart file:

Exec=/opt/"Drata Agent"/drata-agent

The issue? A space in the directory name. While the command worked in the terminal with quotes, the autostart system couldn’t handle it properly and was only executing /opt/Drata.

The fix was straightforward:

sudo mv "Drata Agent" DrataAgent

And updating the autostart config:

Exec=/opt/DrataAgent/drata-agent

After this change, the agent started without issues. A simple space in a directory name was the culprit all along.