[Freeipa-users] IPA server having cert issues

Bret Wortman bret.wortman at damascusgrp.com
Tue Apr 26 13:24:05 UTC 2016


I rolled the date on the IPA server in question back to April 1 and ran 
"ipa-cacert-manage renew", which said it completed successfully. I 
rolled the date back to current and tried restarting ipa using ipactl 
stop && ipactl start, but no joy. No more ca renewal errors, but right 
after the pause I see this in /var/log/messages:

systemd: kadmin.service: main process exited, code=exited, 
status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
systemd: Unit kadmin.service entered failed state.
systemd: kadmin.service failed.

I rebooted the server just in case, and it's still getting stuck at the 
same place. ipa-otpd doesn't get around to starting.


Bret

After the several-minutes-long pause after ipactl start outputs 
"Starting pki-tomcatd Service", I get the

On 04/26/2016 08:14 AM, Bret Wortman wrote:
> I have an IPA server on a private network which has apparently run 
> into certificate issues this morning. It's been running without issue 
> for quite a while, and is on 4.1.4-1 on fedora 21.
>
> This morning, the gui started giving:
>
> IPA Error 907: NetworkError with description "cannot connect to 
> 'https://zsipa.private.net:443/ca/agent/ca/displayBySerial': 
> (SSL_ERROR_EXPIRED_CERRT_ALERT) SSL peer rejected your certificate as 
> expired."
>
> I dug into the logs and after trying to restart ipa using ipactl, 
> there was a length pause, then:
>
> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available
> certmonger: Certificate named "ipaCert" in token "NSS Certificate DB" 
> in database "/etc/httpd/alias" is no longer valid.
> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available
> certmonger: Certificate named "ocspSigningCert cert-pki-ca" in token 
> "NSS Certificate DB" in database "/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias" is no 
> longer valid.
> dogtag-ipa-ca-renew-agent-submit: Updated certificate not available.
> named-pkcs11[3437]: client 192.168.208.205#57832: update 
> '208.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN' denied
>
> and then things start shutting down. I can't start ipa at all using 
> ipactl.
>
> So at present, our DNS is down. Authentication should work for a 
> while, but I'd like to get this working again as quickly as possible. 
> Any ideas? I deal with certificates so infrequently (like only when 
> something like this happens) that I'm not sure where to start.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -- 
> *Bret Wortman*
> /Coming soon to Kickstarter.../
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>

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