[Freeipa-users] Badly corrupted IPA

[Bret Wortman]

BTW, this also fails when using the web UI -- I can see the entry but 
not delete it.

On 03/27/2014 09:02 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
> My IPA corruption continues and I'm afraid I'm going to have to 
> recreate it from scratch since no reasonable means of backup exists 
> (which I understand -- that's not my complaint).
>
> Here's what I'm facing:
>
> # script -c 'ipa host-find mw79.damascusgrp.com'
> Script started, file is typescript
> --------------
> 1 host matched
> --------------
>   Host name: mw79.damascusgrp.com
>   Principal name: host/mw79.damascusgrp.com at DAMASCUSGRP.COM
>   Password: False
>   Member of host-groups: allow_all_hosts
>   Indirect Member of HBAC rule: allow_all_users_services
>   Keytab: False
>   SSH public key fingerprint: [snip] (ssh-dss)
>
> ----------------------------
> Number of entries returned 1
> ----------------------------
> Script done, file is typescript
> # script -c 'ipa host-del mw79.damascusgrp.com'
> Script started, file is typescript
> ipa: ERROR: mw79.damascusgrp.com: host not found
> Script done, file is typescript
> #
>
> I had unenrolled this host and was attempting to re-enroll it, and 
> this is preventing its re-enrollment. Any ideas of how to force 
> deletion of this host entry? I'm not LDAP savvy enough to just go in 
> and start whacking LDAP entries myself, and given that my IPA database 
> has gotten corrupted enough that no IPA CLI command can run without 
> being wrapped in "script" or "strace" or similar, I'm hesitant to go 
> too far. This machine, however, is my program manager's workstation, 
> so it's pretty important to get back up and running.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -- 
> *Bret Wortman*
>
> http://damascusgrp.com/
> http://about.me/wortmanbret
>
>
>
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