[Freeipa-users] Cannot create replica after previous broken replica install

[Tomasz 'Zen' Napierała]

On May 26, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Tomasz 'Zen' Napierała wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install replica server that prevously failed to initialize.
> Host ldap-s1 - first server
> Host ldap-s2 - reinstalled server
> 
> After ipa-replica-install on ldap-s2, I got:
> Connection check OK
> The host ldap-s2.xxx already exists on the master server. Depending on your configuration, you may perform the following:
> 
> Remove the replication agreement, if any:
>    % ipa-replica-manage del ldap-s2.xxx
> Remove the host entry:
>    % ipa host-del ldap-s2.xxx
> 
> So I tried to do that, but:
> ipa-replica-manage del ldap-s2.xxx
> Unable to delete replica ldap-s2.xxx: {'desc': "Can't contact LDAP server"}


Ok, fixed that myself ;)
I just --force replica deletion, restarted dirsrv on master, recreated replica file, and did replica install again. All went fine.

Regards,
-- 
Tomasz 'Zen' Napierała
tomasz at napierala.org