[Freeipa-users] ipa-server-install IndexError: list index out of range

Chuck Lever chucklever at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 21:26:54 UTC 2013


On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Chuck Lever wrote:
>> Hi-
>> 
>> I'm new to FreeIPA.  I'm installing on an up-to-date Fedora 18 system from the freeipa packages available with Fedora 18.  When running ipa-server-install, the install process fails here:
>> 
>> Configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd): Estimated time 3 minutes 30 seconds
>>   [1/20]: creating certificate server user
>>     ...
>>   [15/20]: requesting RA certificate from CA
>> Unexpected error - see /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for details:
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>> 
>> The tail of the installer log looks like this:
>> 
>> Generating key.  This may take a few moments...
>> 
>> 
>> 2013-02-12T21:04:46Z INFO   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/installutils.py", line 617, in run_script
>>     return_value = main_function()
>> 
>>   File "/sbin/ipa-server-install", line 986, in main
>>     dm_password, subject_base=options.subject)
>> 
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py", line 621, in configure_instance
>>     self.start_creation(runtime=210)
>> 
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py", line 358, in start_creation
>>     method()
>> 
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/cainstance.py", line 1219, in __request_ra_certificate
>>     self.requestId = item_node[0].childNodes[0].data
>> 
>> 2013-02-12T21:04:46Z INFO The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: IndexError: list index out of range
>> 
>> 
>> Is there a workaround or fix available?  I haven't found any relevant information via a web search, and a few searches on bugzilla.redhat.com have come up empty.
>> 
> 
> We've seen just one other report of this and unfortunately the VM was removed before we could do a lot of diagnosis. What we saw was that certutil output garbage when requesting the RA admin certificate. Can you look in /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for the last certutil command? Does stdout contain a lot of garbage characters in it? It should consist of a base64-encoded CSR.

2013-02-12T21:04:29Z DEBUG   [15/20]: requesting RA certificate from CA
2013-02-12T21:04:29Z DEBUG Starting external process
2013-02-12T21:04:29Z DEBUG args=/usr/bin/certutil -d /etc/httpd/alias -f XXXXXXXX -R -k 
rsa -g 2048 -s CN=IPA RA,O=1015GRANGER.NET -z /tmp/tmptIYFZ5 -a
2013-02-12T21:04:33Z DEBUG Process finished, return code=0
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2013-02-12T21:04:33Z DEBUG stderr=


> If so, what version of nss and nss-tools do you have installed?


[root at forain ~]# yum info nss nss-tools
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name        : nss
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.14.2
Release     : 2.fc18
Size        : 2.5 M
Repo        : installed
>From repo   : updates
Summary     : Network Security Services
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
License     : MPLv2.0
Description : Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
            : support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
            : server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
            : and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
            : v3 certificates, and other security standards.

Name        : nss-tools
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 3.14.2
Release     : 2.fc18
Size        : 1.7 M
Repo        : installed
>From repo   : updates
Summary     : Tools for the Network Security Services
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
License     : MPLv2.0
Description : Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
            : support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
            : server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
            : and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
            : v3 certificates, and other security standards.
            : 
            : Install the nss-tools package if you need command-line tools to
            : manipulate the NSS certificate and key database.

Available Packages
Name        : nss
Arch        : i686
Version     : 3.14.2
Release     : 2.fc18
Size        : 833 k
Repo        : updates/18/x86_64
Summary     : Network Security Services
URL         : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
License     : MPLv2.0
Description : Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
            : support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and
            : server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
            : and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
            : v3 certificates, and other security standards.

[root at forain ~]# 

Hope this helps.

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Chuck Lever
chucklever[at]gmail[dot]com







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