# Not able to register namespace in 1.2.1 k8s setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Support\ **Created:** [November 11, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/not-able-to-register-namespace-in-1-2-1-k8s-setup/961 "2020-11-11T11:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.temporal.io/u/madhu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/not-able-to-register-namespace-in-1-2-1-k8s-setup/961/1 "2020-11-11T11:48:12Z")
Hi i have been running 1.2.1 docker image for couple of days and it works perfectly fine. When i try to run temporal 1.2.1 using k8s/helm. I am unable to register namespace, i get 403 exception. bash-5.0# tctl --namespace samples-namespace namespace register Error: Register namespace operation failed. Error Details: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Forbidden: Forbidden status code: 403, request id: 250DCE81B9026FA0, host id: bTkqpS/CChOZrwZw14CL1p8mOfKlnEMU66Pm25Mx33DxGk6a+KD6xLvdso3cX7xhjAopvQ/dUGA= (‘export TEMPORAL\_CLI\_SHOW\_STACKS=1’ to see stack traces) in the front end i see the following in logs {“level”:“error”,“ts”:“2020-11-11T11:22:30.917Z”,“msg”:“Unknown error”,“service”:“frontend”,“error”:“Forbidden: Forbidden\n\tstatus code: 403, request id: C486AFCD8246BCA6, host id: p3YC1NdyUDJbVfGd6OrQ8IYuLcOmqSYpQaauroLUyQUoF7qkekVFxR+mQrX5bgQC3DVf2/L7BWI=”,“logging-call-at”:“workflowHandler.go:3399”,“stacktrace”:“[go.temporal.io/server/common/log/loggerimpl.(\*loggerImpl](http://go.temporal.io/server/common/log/loggerimpl.(*loggerImpl)).Error\n\t/temporal/common/log/loggerimpl/logger.go:138\[ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(\*WorkflowHandler](http://ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(*WorkflowHandler)).error\n\t/temporal/service/frontend/workflowHandler.go:3399\[ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(\*WorkflowHandler](http://ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(*WorkflowHandler)).RegisterNamespace\n\t/temporal/service/frontend/workflowHandler.go:252\[ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(\*DCRedirectionHandlerImpl](http://ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(*DCRedirectionHandlerImpl)).RegisterNamespace\n\t/temporal/service/frontend/dcRedirectionHandler.go:177\[ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(\*AccessControlledWorkflowHandler](http://ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(*AccessControlledWorkflowHandler)).RegisterNamespace\n\t/temporal/service/frontend/accessControlledHandler.go:469\[ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(\*WorkflowNilCheckHandler](http://ngo.temporal.io/server/service/frontend.(*WorkflowNilCheckHandler)).RegisterNamespace\n\t/temporal/service/frontend/workflowNilCheckHandler.go:62\[ngo.temporal.io/api/workflowservice/v1.\_WorkflowService\_RegisterNamespace\_Handler.func1\n\t/go/pkg/mod/go.temporal.io/api@v1.1.0/workflowservice/v1/service.pb.go:957\ngo.temporal.io/server/common/rpc.Interceptor\n\t/temporal/common/rpc/interceptor.go:35\ngo.temporal.io/api/workflowservice/v1.\_WorkflowService\_RegisterNamespace\_Handler\n\t/go/pkg/mod/go.temporal.io/api@v1.1.0/workflowservice/v1/service.pb.go:959\ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(\*Server](http://ngo.temporal.io/api/workflowservice/v1._WorkflowService_RegisterNamespace_Handler.func1%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/go.temporal.io/api@v1.1.0/workflowservice/v1/service.pb.go:957%5Cngo.temporal.io/server/common/rpc.Interceptor%5Cn%5Ct/temporal/common/rpc/interceptor.go:35%5Cngo.temporal.io/api/workflowservice/v1._WorkflowService_RegisterNamespace_Handler%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/go.temporal.io/api@v1.1.0/workflowservice/v1/service.pb.go:959%5Cngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server)).processUnaryRPC\n\t/go/pkg/mod/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.32.0/server.go:1194\[ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(\*Server](http://ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server)).handleStream\n\t/go/pkg/mod/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.32.0/server.go:1517\[ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(\*Server](http://ngoogle.golang.org/grpc.(*Server)).serveStreams.func1.2\n\t/go/pkg/mod/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.32.0/server.go:859”} ---
**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.temporal.io/u/madhu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/not-able-to-register-namespace-in-1-2-1-k8s-setup/961/2 "2020-11-11T14:07:54Z")
ok. looks like it was EKS s3 archival credentails issue. will be nice we there could be some hint in the logs that its coming from archival configuration. ---
**Author:** ![maxim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/maxim/32/8_2.png) [@maxim](https://community.temporal.io/u/maxim)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/not-able-to-register-namespace-in-1-2-1-k8s-setup/961/3 "2020-11-11T19:37:40Z")
Would you file an issue to improve the logging? ---
**Author:** ![madhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@madhu](https://community.temporal.io/u/madhu)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/not-able-to-register-namespace-in-1-2-1-k8s-setup/961/4 "2020-11-12T08:18:15Z")
Thank @maxim just did that [https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/issues/983](https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/issues/983)