[Freeipa-users] Replica re-initialization

[Martin Kosek]

On 12/11/2014 06:19 PM, Matt Chesler wrote:
> I have a cluster of four IPA masters that should be performing fully meshed
> replication.  I discovered yesterday that a recently created user only existed
> on a single master.  After looking through all four masters, it appears that
> several recent updates only exist on one of the masters.  I do not see any
> replication errors in any of the logs, but I'm not 100% sure how far back this
> issue goes.

That's really strange, because AFAIK, DS replication module yells periodically 
if it cannot replicate so you should see it on the last errors log page.

> I do believe the one master with up-to-date data is a reliable
> representation of what the LDAP directory should look like.  I ran a
> reinitialize command (ipa-replica-manage re-initialize --from
> reliable-server.fqdn) on two of the out-of-date masters yesterday around 4pm
> EST.  It's now a little after 12pm EST and the "Update in progress" message is
> still scrolling by once a second on both terminals.  I'd greatly appreciate
> suggestions about a) how to determine the status of the reinitialize command
> and b) any other ideas about how to resolve this issue and monitor for it
> better in the future.  Thanks in advance for your help!

Thierry or Ludwig, any idea?