[Freeipa-users] PKI-CAD couldn't start

[Rob Crittenden]

Nathan Kinder wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 01:58 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> On 07/12/2013 05:18 AM, natxo asenjo wrote:
>>> On 07/12/2013 10:55 AM, Christian Schmitt wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can't start the IPA Service with service ipa start after an reboot.
>>>> It fails on the pki-cad service, that only outputs
>>>> 'grep --help' gives you more information.
>>>>
>>>> I'm really not sure whats the correct error and how to restart ipa now.
>>> logs? look in /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-PKI-{yourinstancename}/ , the
>>> answer should be in one of the files in there.
>>>
>> This is a DS log, you need to look into the PKI-CA log. Unfortunately I
>> do not recall its location from top of my head.
> We need to see if /var/log/pki-ca/catalina.out gives any clues when the
> startup fails.

I wonder if it is even getting that far. If it is failing with grep 
usage then I wonder if something is missing that the init script is 
looking for.

rob