[Freeipa-users] ipa-client-install on CentOS 5 creating zero-length /etc/sysconfig/network file

[Kelvin Edmison]

On 2012-04-13, at 1:09 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:

> Kelvin Edmison wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When troubleshooting what I thought was an NFS4 issue, I have found what looks to be a bug in ipa-client-install.
>> 
>> On a CentOS 5.8 machine, I ran
>> ipa-client-install --no-ntp --force --hostname=kelvin-c5.<dnsdomainname>
>> and successfully bound to the domain.
>> 
>> I am now trying to get nfs4 up and running, and found that idmapd was not starting.  I traced that back to an empty /etc/sysconfig/network file, and ipa-client-install looks to be the cause.
>> 
>> [root at kelvin-c5 ~]# ls -al /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network.orig /var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore/*-network
>> -rw------- 1 root root  0 Apr 13 11:58 /etc/sysconfig/network
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Aug 12  2011 /etc/sysconfig/network.orig
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Aug 12  2011 /var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore/477d00fd6ff85634-network
>> 
>> I looked back on another CentOS 5 machine we have, and the same problem exists there.
>> 
>> I was surprised to see that most network services were working when the file was empty.  It turns out that many network services start properly with an empty /etc/sysconfig/network file, but some do not.  It appears to be down to the structure of the test in the init scripts; e.g.
>> [ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ]&&  exit 0
>> vs.
>> [ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ]&&  exit 6
>> 
>> So, is this a bug in ipa-client-install?
>> Can I just copy my network.orig back into place in order to get rpcidmapd and friends to run correctly?
> 
> Yes, it should be safe to copy that file back. What we try to do is ensure that the hostmae provided to ipa-client-install is reflected in /etc/sysconfig/networking.
> 
> What rpm version of ipa-client-install are you using?

ipa-client-2.1.3-1.el5

Thanks,
  Kelvin=