[Freeipa-users] Can't use "ipa" commands on brand new ipa server instance

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 13:25 -0400, Bret Wortman wrote:
> On 04/28/2014 01:19 PM, Bret Wortman wrote:
> > I just got a new ipa server instantiated and haven't actually 
> > installed any users or hosts on it yet. No replicas. No migrated data.
> >
> > Yet when I run any "ipa" commands from the command line, it behaves 
> > exactly as our older, troubled servers do and exits the login session 
> > immediately, whether I'm connected at the console or via ssh. Further, 
> > when I run strace to try to capture what might be going on, the 
> > behavior stops. "Script" also prevents commands from exiting, but this 
> > is really disconcerting. I was chalking this up to the fact that our 
> > database had become corrupted by our replication problems, but now I'm 
> > thinking it might be environmental, though our original IPA servers 
> > are running F18 and this new instance is F20.
> >
> > I need some stability here, and CLI is part of that. What might be 
> > causing the CLI to not work at all when coupled to a TTY device, as 
> > that seems to be the critical piece? Could this be related to the 
> > servers being VMs?
> >
> BTW, we have this running on F20 on a different network and it works 
> just fine. The network on which the failures are occurring isn't 
> internet-connected; is there something that's trying to connect back to 
> redhat?

no.

What shell do you use ?

Simo.

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