[Freeipa-users] Unable to start IPA server after server reboot

[Rob Crittenden]

Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>   Hi Rob,
> It was just "polaris" - so I tried:
> [root at polaris etc]# hostname polaris.example.com
>
> and it started working - Magic!
> That means that we rely on the fact that hostname is set to FQDN, right?
> Isn't it too strong requirement?
> Maybe we should guess FQDN using reverse lookups I do not know. The
> bottom line is that at least the IPA installation script should warn
> about the incorrect hostname.
>
> And the error message was bit confusing as well, because from that one
> none can even guess what went wrong, I even tried to add 'ipactl -d
> start' to print more debugging, but it did not help either.
>
> Just trying to bring some ideas, otherwise I am happy that it is working
> again for me :-)
> Thanks!
>
> Ondrej

Kerberos and SSL really want fully-qualified names.

We've done some upstream work to address detecting when the hostname is 
not a fqdn. I filed a new ticket for the poor error message.

thanks for the suggestions.

rob