[Freeipa-devel] reason for re-install failure

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Sep 7 20:07:59 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:47 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> I ran into the "fail on re-install" problem where the install fails on a 
> kadmin timeout.
> 
> The problem is that the installation appends the new password to 
> /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/ldappwd. This can lead to duplicate entries and it 
> apparently makes things flip out. I just removed that file and the 
> re-install went fine.

Ok this maybe seen as a bug, should we backup and move the original file
on installation ?

Simo.




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