[Freeipa-users] FreeIpa 3.0.1 installation on Fedora 18

[John Dennis]

On 12/06/2012 11:32 AM, Maciej Sawicki wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to install FreeIpa server on my fedora machine.
> Unfortunately I have an error:
>
> [root at freeipa ~]# ipa-server-install
> (...)
> Configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd): Estimated time 3 minutes
> 30 seconds
>    [1/19]: creating certificate server user
>    [2/19]: configuring certificate server instance
> ipa         : CRITICAL failed to configure ca instance Command
> '/usr/sbin/pkispawn -s CA -f /tmp/tmpAmKZ0f' returned non-zero exit
> status 1
> Configuration of CA failed
>
> I will appreciate any help.

I ran into similar issues.

1) Make sure F18 is fully updated via yum
2) reboot
3) reboot

Yes, that's right, reboot twice! (Apparently that's needed to get 
systemd updates installed and working)

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