[Freeipa-users] SSSD startup failures on ipa clients

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:02:17AM -0400, Mark Heslin wrote:
> Hi Jakub,
> 
> (Top posting to save scrolling).
> 
> Success. It looks like the c-ares package was not installed during
> ipa-client install:
> 
>    # rpm -qV c-ares
>    package c-ares is not installed
>    # yum reinstall c-ares
>    ...
>    Package(s) c-ares available, but not installed.
>    Error: Nothing to do
>    # yum clean all
>    ...
>    # yum install c-ares
>    ...
>    Installed:
>    c-ares.x86_64 0:1.7.0-6.el6
> 
>    Complete!
> 
>    # service sssd restart
>    Stopping sssd: cat: /var/run/sssd.pid: No such file or directory
> [FAILED]
>    Starting sssd: [  OK  ]
>    #
> 
> Now the ssh keys are working :-)
> 
> So one last question. Would we normally track this down this way for a
> customer or simply

I think just installing the package should be fine. I wonder why didn't
yum check report the broken c-ares dependency?

> have them uninstall and re-install the ipa client? Is there any disadvantage
> to that?

no, that should be fine as well, except for losing some local
modifications and maybe getting a keytab with a higher kvno.