[Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-prepare clarification

[James Roman]

In case any one runs into this error while trying to create a replica:

Starting dirsrv:
   REALM-COM...[15/Sep/2009:09:39:18 -0400] dse - The entry cn=schema in 
file /etc/dirsrv/slapd-REALM-COM/schema/##xxxxxx.ldif is invalid, error 
code 21 (Invalid syntax) - object class nsAIMpresence: Unknown allowed 
attribute type "nsaimid"
[15/Sep/2009:09:39:18 -0400] dse - Please edit the file to correct the 
reported problems and then restart the server.

In this case, all customizations had been added to the 
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-<realm>-COM/schema/99user.ldif file. Simply commenting 
out the offending parts of the schema was sufficient to start the 
replica directory server. It looks like the specific attribute is 
supposed to be nsAIMid, not nsaimid.