[Freeipa-users] Replication woes

[Bret Wortman]

The software is actually gone from both boxes -- one is dead and the other
was reinstalled when the upgrade failed. So I can't get at the database for
either one. Safe to just --cleanup in that case?


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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com>wrote:

> Bret Wortman wrote:
>
>> My replication situation has gotten a bit messed up.
>>
>> I have four replicas that are up and running and two that I'm trying to
>> delete (one is not a replica any more, one didn't upgrade well during
>> its fedup upgrade from F17->F18 and as such I had to do a clean OS
>> install).
>>
>> # ipa-replica-manage list
>> bad1.foo.net: master
>> bad2.foo.net: master
>> good1.foo.net <http://good1.foo.net>: master
>> good2.foo.net <http://good2.foo.net>: master
>> good3.foo.net <http://good3.foo.net>: master
>> good4.foo.net <http://good4.foo.net>: master
>> # ipa-replica-manage list ipamaster.foo.net
>> good1.foo.net <http://good1.foo.net>: replica
>> good2.foo.net <http://good2.foo.net>: replica
>> good3.foo.net <http://good3.foo.net>: replica
>> good4.foo.net <http://good4.foo.net>: replica
>> # ipa-replica-manage del --force bad1.foo.net <http://bad1.foo.net>
>> 'ipamaster.foo.net <http://ipamaster.foo.net>' has no replication
>> agreement for 'bad1.foo.net <http://bad1.foo.net>'
>> # ipa-replica-manage del --force bad2.foo.net <http://bad2.foo.net>
>> 'ipamaster.foo.net <http://ipamaster.foo.net>' has no replication
>> agreement for 'bad2.foo.net <http://bad2.foo.net>'
>> #
>>
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>> What I need to do is remove bad1 completely and then remove bad2 and
>> re-add it as a replica. Any ideas?
>>
>
> I guess I'd start on bad1 and see what replication agreements it thinks it
> has. It is worth it to double-check on all the good hosts too, just to be
> sure that nobody has an agreement.
>
> Assuming it has no agreements, add the --cleanup flag to the del command.
> This will prompt you to erase the replica as a master. We have lots of
> warnings because this can be a pretty dangerous command.
>
> Once removed you can safely uninstall the replica and re-install if you'd
> like.
>
> rob
>
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