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

[Simo Sorce]

> On 04/28/2014 01:32 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > 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 ?

On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 13:43 -0400, Bret Wortman wrote:
> bash.

Does it make any difference if you redirect stdin before calling the
command ?

Simo.
 
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