[Freeipa-users] Asking for help with crashed freeIPA istance

Daniel Schimpfoessl daniel at schimpfoessl.com
Fri Dec 23 00:08:24 UTC 2016


I do not believe I changed the DM password. I know I had to update the
admin passwords regularly.

Only during the startup using ipactl start --force I am able to connect to
the service using the password for DM and it returns:

# extended LDIF
#
# LDAPv3
# base <> with scope baseObject
# filter: (objectclass=*)
# requesting: ALL
#

#
dn:
objectClass: top
namingContexts: cn=changelog
namingContexts: dc=myorg,dc=com
namingContexts: o=ipaca
defaultnamingcontext: dc=myorg,dc=com
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.7
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.8
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.10
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.3
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.4
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.4.1
supportedExtension: 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.11.1
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.1
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.5
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.3
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.12
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.5
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.6
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.9
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.5.4
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.6.5
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.6.6
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.6.7
supportedExtension: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.6.8
supportedExtension: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.2
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.3
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.4
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.5
supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.473
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.9
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.16
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.15
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.17
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.19
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.1.13.1
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.1.13.2
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.27.8.5.1
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.27.9.5.2
supportedControl: 1.2.840.113556.1.4.319
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.27.9.5.8
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.666.5.16
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.8.10.6
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.14
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.20
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.29539.12
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.12
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.18
supportedControl: 2.16.840.1.113730.3.4.13
supportedControl: 1.3.6.1.4.1.4203.1.9.1.1
supportedSASLMechanisms: EXTERNAL
supportedSASLMechanisms: GSS-SPNEGO
supportedSASLMechanisms: GSSAPI
supportedSASLMechanisms: DIGEST-MD5
supportedSASLMechanisms: CRAM-MD5
supportedSASLMechanisms: ANONYMOUS
supportedLDAPVersion: 2
supportedLDAPVersion: 3
vendorName: 389 Project
vendorVersion: 389-Directory/1.3.4.0 B2016.215.1556
dataversion: 020161222235947020161222235947020161222235947
netscapemdsuffix: cn=ldap://dc=wwgwho01,dc=myorg,dc=com:389
lastusn: 8690425
changeLog: cn=changelog
firstchangenumber: 2752153
lastchangenumber: 2752346

# search result
search: 2
result: 0 Success

# numResponses: 2
# numEntries: 1


2016-12-21 9:27 GMT-06:00 Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com>:

> Daniel Schimpfoessl wrote:
> > Thanks for getting back to me.
> >
> > getcert list | grep expires shows dates years in the future for all
> > certificates
> > Inline-Bild 1
> >
> > ipactl start --force
> >
> > Eventually the system started with:
> >      Forced start, ignoring pki-tomcatd Service, continuing normal
> > operations.
> >
> > systemctl status ipa shows: failed
>
> I don't think this is a certificate problem at all. I think the timing
> with your renewal is just coincidence.
>
> Did you change your Directory Manager password at some point?
>
> >
> > ldapsearch -H ldaps://localhost:636 -D "cn=directory manager" -w
> > password -b "" -s base
> > ldapsearch -H ldaps://localhost:636 -D "cn=directory manager" -w
> > *********** -b "" -s base
> > Inline-Bild 2
>
> You need the -x flag to indicate simple bind.
>
> rob
>
> > The logs have thousands of lines like it, what am I looking for
> > specifically?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > 2016-12-20 4:18 GMT-06:00 Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo at redhat.com
> > <mailto:flo at redhat.com>>:
> >
> >     On 12/19/2016 07:15 PM, Daniel Schimpfoessl wrote:
> >
> >         Good day and happy holidays,
> >
> >         I have been running a freeIPA instance for a few years and been
> very
> >         happy. Recently the certificate expired and I updated it using
> the
> >         documented methods. At first all seemed fine. Added a Nagios
> >         monitor for
> >         the certificate expiration and restarted the server (single
> >         server). I
> >         have weekly snapshots, daily backups (using Amanda on the entire
> >         disk).
> >
> >         One day the services relying on IPA failed to authenticate.
> >         Looking at
> >         the server the ipa service had stopped. Restarting the service
> >         fails.
> >         Restoring a few weeks old snapshot does not start either.
> >         Resetting the
> >         date to a few month back does not work either as httpd fails to
> >         start .
> >
> >         I am at a loss.
> >
> >         Here a few details:
> >         # ipa --version
> >         VERSION: 4.4.0, API_VERSION: 2.213
> >
> >
> >         # /usr/sbin/ipactl start
> >         ...
> >         out -> Failed to start pki-tomcatd Service
> >         /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/debug -> Could not connect to LDAP
> server
> >         host ipa.myorg.com <http://ipa.myorg.com> <http://ipa.myorg.com>
> >         port 636 Error
> >         netscape.ldap.LDAPException: Authentication failed (48)
> >         2016-12-19T03:02:16Z DEBUG The CA status is: check interrupted
> >         due to
> >         error: Retrieving CA status failed with status 500
> >
> >         Any help would be appreciated as all connected services are now
> >         down.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >
> >         Daniel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     Hi Daniel,
> >
> >     more information would be required to understand what is going on.
> >     First of all, which certificate did you renew? Can you check with
> >     $ getcert list
> >     if other certificates also expired?
> >
> >     PKI fails to start and the error seems linked to the SSL connection
> >     with the LDAP server. You may want to check if the LDAP server is
> >     listening on the LDAPs port:
> >     - start the stack with
> >     $ ipactl start --force
> >     - check the LDAPs port with
> >     $ ldapsearch -H ldaps://localhost:636 -D "cn=directory manager" -w
> >     password -b "" -s base
> >
> >     The communication between PKI and the LDAP server is authenticated
> >     with the certificate 'subsystemCert cert-pki-ca' located in
> >     /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias, so you may also want to check if it is
> >     still valid.
> >     The directory server access logs (in
> >     /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-DOMAIN-COM/access) would also show the
> >     connection with logs similar to:
> >
> >     [...] conn=47 fd=84 slot=84 SSL connection from 10.34.58.150 to
> >     10.34.58.150
> >     [...] conn=47 TLS1.2 128-bit AES; client CN=CA
> >     Subsystem,O=DOMAIN.COM <http://DOMAIN.COM>; issuer CN=Certificate
> >     Authority,O=DOMAIN.COM <http://DOMAIN.COM>
> >     [...] conn=47 TLS1.2 client bound as uid=pkidbuser,ou=people,o=ipaca
> >     [...] conn=47 op=0 BIND dn="" method=sasl version=3 mech=EXTERNAL
> >     [...] conn=47 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 etime=0
> >     dn="uid=pkidbuser,ou=people,o=ipaca"
> >
> >
> >
> >     HTH,
> >     Flo
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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