[Freeipa-users] Client Install - I'm clueless

[Rob Crittenden]

Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 01:52 PM, Lincoln Fessenden wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>> First time I played with this was yesterday so forgive me if I am way
>> behind the median user here.
>> I installed the server twice, both times on RHEL 6.5.  Seems to work
>> just fine and the install goes smooth.  First install of the client
>> was on a RHEL 7 beta machine, which worked but I could not get server
>> exclusion rules working (all or nothing), hence the server reinstall.
>> Next I tried ipa-client on a brand new RHEL 6.5 box.  This will NOT
>> complete installation and the same is true for 5.10.  Different errors
>> though.  6.5 errors out after sending xml to the ipa-server and 5.10
>> right after I provide the domain name.  Since both of these machines
>> are new installs and current for the release, I have got to believe I
>> am missing something somewhere - some missing software dependency?  I
>> almost never have seen software in the enterprise repository that is
>> just broken...  Help?
>>
> Most likely there some DNS issues. Please check your DNS, /etc/hosts, etc.
>
> Can you provide any client install logs?
> That would really help.
>
> Also http://www.freeipa.org/page/Troubleshooting might be helpful.
>

Yes, seeing the errors would be quite helpful too, the more context the 
better (/var/log/ipaclient-install.log).

rob