[Freeipa-users] IPA Startup issues

[Rob Crittenden]

Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
> 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?

Can you be more specific which services didn't start?

rob