[Freeipa-users] Trouble with ipa-server-install in Fedora 18

[Rob Crittenden]

小龙 陈 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been having trouble getting FreeIPA set up on Fedora 18. ipa-server-install
> keeps failing at the "[2/20]: configuring certificate server instance" stage. This is
> on a fresh Fedora 18 virtual machine. I never had any issues on any of the Fedora 18
> prereleases.
>
> ipa-server-install output: http://paste.kde.org/655916/raw/
> rpm -qa | grep freeipa | sort: http://paste.kde.org/655928/raw/
> /var/log/ipaserver-install.log: http://ompldr.org/vaDdsOA/ipaserver-install.log
>
> If I copy the pkispawn configuration from the log to /tmp/tmpZmif5T and run the
> failed command, I get: http://paste.kde.org/655940/raw/
>
> Does anyone know what could be the problem? I can't seem to find anything about
> that error.
>

Looks like a bug in pki-core:

2013-01-24T20:18:55Z DEBUG stderr=Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/pkispawn", line 220, in <module>
     main(sys.argv)
   File "/usr/sbin/pkispawn", line 158, in main
     rv = parser.read_pki_configuration_file()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pki/deployment/pkiparser.py", 
line 229, in read_pki_configuration_file
     config.pki_subsystem_dict = dict(self.pki_config.items('CA'))
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 655, in items
     for option in options]
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 691, in _interpolate
     self._interpolate_some(option, L, rawval, section, vars, 1)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 732, in 
_interpolate_some
     "'%%' must be followed by '%%' or '(', found: %r" % (rest,))
ConfigParser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or 
'(', found: '%'

If you are using % or ( in your DM password you might try a different 
password as a workaround.

rob