[Freeipa-users] Setup of freeipa 4.1.3 failed

[Markus Roth]

Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2015, 16:04:54 schrieben Sie:
> On 4/1/2015 11:56 AM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
> >>> On 03/31/2015 01:54 PM, Markus Roth wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I want setup freeipa 4.1.3 on a fresh installed fedora 21.
> > 
> >>>> The ipa-server-install shows the following output:
> > ...
> > 
> >>>> Done configuring directory server (dirsrv).
> >>>> Configuring certificate server (pki-tomcatd): Estimated time 3
> >>>> minutes 30
> >>>> seconds
> >>>> 
> >>>>     [1/27]: creating certificate server user
> >>>>     [2/27]: configuring certificate server instance
> >>>>     [3/27]: stopping certificate server instance to update CS.cfg
> >>>>     [4/27]: backing up CS.cfg
> >>>>     [5/27]: disabling nonces
> >>>>     [6/27]: set up CRL publishing
> >>>>     [7/27]: enable PKIX certificate path discovery and validation
> >>>>     [8/27]: starting certificate server instance
> >>>>     [error] RuntimeError: CA did not start in 300.0s
> >>>> 
> >>>> CA did not start in 300.0s
> >>>> 
> >>>> The ipa server install log shows this:
> >>>> 
> >>>> 2015-03-31T17:39:35Z DEBUG The CA status is: check interrupted
> >>>> 2015-03-31T17:39:35Z DEBUG Waiting for CA to start...
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >>>> I uninstalled the ipa server completely several times and installed
> >>>> it again.
> >>>> But it always stops at the same step with the setup.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Can anybody help?
> > 
> > Based on the IPA install log alone it looks like the DS is already
> > started, and the Dogtag is already started too in step [3/27]. It's the
> > restart on step [8/27] that is failing.
> > 
> > We will need to see the Dogtag debug log in order to know if Dogtag is
> > indeed failing to restart or the installer for some reason cannot
> > connect to Dogtag.
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Based on the logs that you sent me, the Dogtag took a really long time
> to start:
> 
>    INFORMATION: Server startup in 739700 ms
> 
> More than half of that time was spent starting the CA subsystem alone:
> 
>    INFORMATION: Deployment of configuration descriptor /etc/pki
>    /pki-tomcat/Catalina/localhost/ca.xml has finished in 393,390 ms
> 
> The whole (failed) IPA installation took about 38 minutes. Is this correct?
> 
> It's possible the system was running out of entropy. You might want to
> install haveged or rngd. See:
> http://blog-ftweedal.rhcloud.com/2014/05/more-entropy-with-haveged/
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-additional-ent
> ropy-for-cloud-servers-using-haveged
> 
> However, the system seems to be running very slowly in general. How
> powerful is this machine?

Hi Endi

the system is a banana pi system. Seems that this ARM CPU based system isn't 
suitable for FreeIPA....