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

[Rob Crittenden]

Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The point is both the client and the server are up to date in terms of
> patches from teh repo.
>
> So your repo is not consistent and needs fixing......

Yes, but what version are you using and what repo, the ipa-devel repo?

rob

>
> regards
>
>
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:43 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> 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
>