[Freeipa-devel] installing from built RPMs on F18

[Rob Crittenden]

Brian Cook wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I try install from RPMs created from 'make rpms' on F18 I get the following error:
> 2013-02-13T19:49:27Z INFO The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: IndexError: list index out of range
>
>
> Here are the few log entries before it:
>
> 2013-02-13T19:49:27Z INFO   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/installutils.py", line 617, in run_script
>      return_value = main_function()
>
>    File "/sbin/ipa-server-install", line 986, in main
>      dm_password, subject_base=options.subject)
>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py", line 623, in configure_instance
>      self.start_creation(runtime=210)
>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py", line 358, in start_creation
>      method()
>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py", line 1225, in __request_ra_certificate
>      self.requestId = item_node[0].childNodes[0].data
>
> 2013-02-13T19:49:27Z INFO The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: IndexError: list index out of range
>
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?

You aren't doing anything wrong. This is caused by a bug in the nss 
package, see this thread
https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-February/msg00195.html

rob