[Freeipa-users] IPA Startup issues

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On 05/16/2011 03:41 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 10:46 AM, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>> I've noticed that if the machine running IPA is very busy at startup,
>> the IPA services will not be online when the machine is started.
>>
>> I noticed this is as my test virtualization host has had it's power
>> cord knocked out a few times. When I restart the host machine, all the
>> virtual machines is started at the same time, causing (a lot) higher
>> than normal latency for each virtual machine.
>>
>> This causes the IPA daemons to start, while during the startup one or
>> several IPA daemons fails due to dependencies of other daemons which
>> is not started yet, and all the IPA daemons is stopped as not all the
>> IPA daemons started successfully. I've noticed that the default
>> behavior of the ipactl command is to shut down all the IPA daemons, if
>> any of the IPA daemons should fail during startup.
>>
>> This can be seen in the logs of the individual services, as some is
>> started successfully, just to receive a shutdown signal shortly after.
>> It seem to be the pki-ca which shut down my IPA services this morning.
>>
>> When rebooting the virtual machine running the IPA daemons during
>> normal load of the host machine, all the IPA daemons start
>> successfully. Logging on to the IPA server and manually starting the
>> IPA daemons after the load of the host machine has decreased also works.
>>
>> I suggest changing the startup scripts to allow (a lot) longer startup
>> times for the IPA daemons prior to failing them.
>
> F15 introduced new way to start daemons and define dependencies.
> We have in our plans to port IPA to use systemd in F16. This will have
> implications on the architecture of the service startup in general and
> most likely will affect the current way of starting services too.
>

This was RHEL 6.1beta I tested at. I presume it will be some time before 
systemd will make it's way into RHEL? What can be done in the meantime 
for IPA in RHEL?


Rgds,
Siggi