[Freeipa-users] Fedora 17 ipa.service fails to load with "ipa.service failed to load. No such file or directory."

[Martin Kosek]

On 02/10/2013 08:15 AM, bin.echo at gmail.com wrote:
> Here is what I did:
> 
> Install Fedora 17 XFCE spin. 
> 
> yum upgrade
> 
> yum install freeipa-client
> 
> enroll machine (it enrolls just fine)
> 
> However, when I reboot the machine, I find the ipa.service isn't running. So I
> manually try to start it:
> 
> systemcrl start ipa.service
> 
> Then I get this error
> Failed to issue method call: Unit ipa.service failed to load: No such file or
> directory. See system logs and 'systemctrl status ipa.service' for details.
> 
> systemctrl status ipa.service proveide no additional useful information. It
> simply tells me there is a directory missing also. 
> 
> Grepping all of /var/log turns up nothing useful. 
> 
> I have no idea what directory ipa.service feels it is missing.
> 
> I'm stumped. Any pointers?
> 
> thanks,
> -Aaron

Hello Aaron,

ipa.service is packaged in freeipa-server package. It is a service controlling
IPA _server_ services (configured by ipa-server-install), i.e. Directory
Server, Kerberos KDC, PKI CA, ... It is not needed to be run on pure client
machine.

The client machine does not have a unified ipa service, but only services you
configured during ipa-client-install, for example sssd service.

HTH,
Martin