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

[Bret Wortman]

On 04/28/2014 01:53 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> 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.
>   
No, I found the problem. A "power" user had written a bash function that 
redefined "ipa" and dropped it into /etc/profile.d. We're about to have 
a little chat.

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