[Freeipa-users] Difficulty installing freeipa

[Dmitri Pal]

On 06/03/2011 05:38 PM, Stamper, Brian P. (ARC-D)[Logyx LLC] wrote:
>
> I've given up on freeipa v2 due to lack of compatibility with hosts I
> manage.  This is all on freeipa v1.  The server started as Fedora 13,
> and I upgraded to Fedora 14 in an attempt to fix the problems.
>
> [root at freeipa ~]# uname -r
> 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
> [root at freeipa ~]# rpm -qa 'ipa*'
> ipa-client-1.2.2-6.fc14.x86_64
> ipa-server-selinux-1.2.2-6.fc14.x86_64
> ipa-python-1.2.2-6.fc14.x86_64
> ipa-admintools-1.2.2-6.fc14.x86_64
> ipa-server-1.2.2-6.fc14.x86_64
> [root at freeipa ~]#
>
> I'm not doing anything special at this point.  I'm not even trying to
> get clients added.  I'm trying to do a basic install of ipa-server,
> with no extra arguments.  That claimed to succeed but wouldn't work, I
> tried to fix it, uninstalled, any attempts to reinstall failed.  So
> right now I'm simply trying to get the ipa service back to any kind of
> functioning status without re-installing the OS.
>

Ah this is all old 1.2 IPA.
Have you tried
ipa-server-install --uninstall

Might require several attempts until all the errors are cleared.

> -Brian
>
> On 6/3/11 2:30 PM, "Dmitri Pal" <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>     Is it all on F13?
>      The IPA v2 can't be built on F13 as there are many dependencies
>     missing that we rely on. There are two many parts this is why we
>     had to move to the later versions of F15. We just did not have any
>     options. So the server you built might in fact be completely
>     broken. I do not know how to fix it. It looks like you have some
>     instances of the DS left over in a misconfigured state.
>      
>      You can try running ipa-server-install --uninstall 4-5 times.
>     That might clear things a bit.
>      
>      But let us get back to the original problem.
>      Freeipa can be used with the LDAP+Kerberos configuration on the
>     clients. You do not need to have latest and greatest.
>      There was a nice article referenced in some of the earlier
>     threads on the list:
>      
>     http://www.aput.net/~jheiss/krbldap/howto.html
>     <http://www.aput.net/%7Ejheiss/krbldap/howto.html>
>     <http://www.aput.net/%7Ejheiss/krbldap/howto.html>
>
>     You can configure very old clients to use IPA as NIS server.
>     Let us know how else we can help.
>      Thanks
>      Dmitri
>      
>      
>
>
>          -Brian
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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