[Freeipa-users] While attempting to join a client ....I get this failure....

[Rob Crittenden]

Steven Jones wrote:
> I have just built these 2 fed14 to act as a server and client and run
> yum update....so they should be as closely sync'd as possible...
>
> =============client===========
>
> [root at fed14-64-ipacl01 ~]# ipa-client-install
> Discovery was successful!
> Realm: IPA.AC.NZ
> DNS Domain: ipa.ac.nz
> IPA Server: fed14-64-ipam001.ipa.ac.nz
> BaseDN: dc=ipa,dc=ac,dc=nz
>
>
> Continue to configure the system with these values? [no]: yes
> Enrollment principal: admin
> Password for admin at IPA.AC.NZ:
>
> Joining realm failed because of failing XML-RPC request.
>    This error may be caused by incompatible server/client major versions.
> [root at fed14-64-ipacl01 ~]# date
> Mon Feb 28 03:12:57 NZDT 2011
> [root at fed14-64-ipacl01 ~]#
>
>
> =============server===========
>
> 8><--------
> is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
> updates-testing/prestodelta
> |  30 kB     00:00
> Processing delta metadata
> Package(s) data still to download: 304 k
> (1/2): nss-softokn-3.12.9-5.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> | 175 kB     00:00
> (2/2): nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-5.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> | 129 kB     00:00
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total
> 789 kB/s | 304 kB     00:00
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>    Updating       : nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-5.fc14.x86_64
> 1/4
>    Updating       : nss-softokn-3.12.9-5.fc14.x86_64
> 2/4
>    Cleanup        : nss-softokn-3.12.9-4.fc14.x86_64
> 3/4
>    Cleanup        : nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-4.fc14.x86_64
> 4/4
>
> Updated:
>    nss-softokn.x86_64 0:3.12.9-5.fc14
> nss-softokn-freebl.x86_64 0:3.12.9-5.fc14
>
> Complete!
> [root at fed14-64-ipam001 tmp]# date
> Mon Feb 28 03:13:02 NZDT 2011
> [root at fed14-64-ipam001 tmp]#
> ============
>
> So nothing major on the server needs updating and the client is bang up
> to date, time stamp is close....
>
> regards

The client and server packages need to be the same version. We realized 
that we had re-used an OID and had to change the OID used to register 
the enrollment OID. So the client package needs to be the same version 
as the server, for now anyway.

rob