[Freeipa-users] unhappy replication?

[Rob Crittenden]

Kat wrote:
> On 9/9/14 3:18 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>> On 09/09/2014 12:55 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2014 10:41 AM, Kat wrote:
>>>> The problem I see is simple - not being able to add additional
>>>> replicas after the migration?
>>>
>>> What I meant to say is - Is the workaround of setting replication
>>> first, then doing migration, acceptable?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/9/14 9:24 AM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>>> On 09/09/2014 10:12 AM, Kat wrote:
>>>>>> Well - here is the problem and solution:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fails every time:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Install master, enable migration, migrate existing LDAP
>>>>>> config/users, setup replication, fails.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Works every time:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Install master, setup replication, enable migration, migrate
>>>>>> existing LDAP config/users, works perfectly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So -- a problem with migration settings??
>>>>>
>>>>> Could be.  Is it a problem if the only way you can successfully set
>>>>> things up is to do the latter procedure?
>>>>
>>>
>> Would be nice to test this scenario at some point and reproduce it.
>> I do not think the workaround is acceptable. One should be able to add
>> the replicas after migration.
>> Is this a timing issue? I mean can you add replica next day for
>> example or never?
>> If you never can add a replica after migration it is a problem and we
>> should fix it. If you can't just for s short period of time then we
>> should probably file a ticket and process it later.
>>
> Sadly - no - I waited 24 hours after the migration from OpenLDAP to IPA
> and still could not do it.
> 
> Going to try something else. Since the bug still exists migrating to 4.x
> directly - going to migrate to 3.3.5, THEN upgrade to 4.0.1 and then try
> the replica addition. I will let you know what happens.

Honestly, I find it hard to believe that this is related to migration.
All migration does is pull over users and groups over LDAP. Whether you
set up the agreement before or after, it is going to do a full database
dump. The only difference is that after it will get more data.

rob