[Freeipa-users] Known issues with IPA on VM?

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/06/2015 12:25 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 05/06/2015 07:48 AM, Christoph Kaminski wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> we have some undefinably problems here with IPA inside a VM (rhev/kvm). We
>> has often zombie processes (defunct) with certmonger and dirsrv and
>> segfaults (dmesg)... We have 8 IPA servers, 4 Hardware and 4 VM's with
>> same Install (rhel7.1). We see these problems only on the VM's. Is there
>> something already known about such problems?
>>
>> (The VM's have ever 4 CPU's and 2GB RAM, we have circa 120 Users/Groups)
> I do not recall any specific VM problems in particular (maybe except that NTPD
> does not work too well in VMs), so I would recommend checking for the real
> reasons of crash. Maybe there are some useful errors in the DS/certmonger log
> files.
>
> If not, seeing the stack trace of the crash would help us/dirsrv developers
> identify the problem:
>
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/FAQ/faq.html#debug_crashes
>
For IPA, to get full stacktraces, you will also need to do this:

# debuginfo-install ipa-server slapi-nis