[Freeipa-users] SSSD startup failures on ipa clients

[Mark Heslin]

Not sure why 'yum check' didn't report anything - I'll run it by release 
engineering
and see if they have anything to share.

Thank you!

-m


On 07/28/2014 09:19 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> 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.