[Freeipa-users] Upgrading from 3.0.0 CentOS6 to 4.2.3 CentOS7

Ash Alam aalam at paperlesspost.com
Wed Jan 27 15:18:34 UTC 2016


Hi Martin

I am happy to provide the necessary information. What packages should i
check for? As for IPA we are IPA CA being signed with other CA

Thank You

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/26/2016 09:45 PM, Ash Alam wrote:
> > I didnt want to dig up an old thread but i am running into this issue.
> The
> > old thread points to Pki 10.2.6 as the solution but i am not seeing that
> > package on centos 7.2.
> >
> > STDERR: ipa.ipaserver.install.cainstance.CAInstance: CRITICAL Failed to
> > configure CA instance: Command ''/usr/sbin/pkispawn' '-s' 'CA' '-f'
> > '/tmp/tmpHfdvFD'' returned non-zero exit status 1
>
> CCing David and Endi, they might have an idea what is wrong. There were
> several
> recent fixes, to again fix RHEL-6 to RHEL-7 migration, we would need to
> check
> if you have them installed. As for your RHEL-6 IPA setup, is it running
> with
> External CA, i.e. IPA CA with being signed with other CA?
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Ash Alam <aalam at paperlesspost.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> thank you! Out of curiosity has anyone been able to automate this using
> >> chef/puppet etc?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Did you follow the instructions in the error message? There is also a
> >>> longer
> >>> description here:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/upgrading.html#migrating-ipa-proc
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
> >>> On 01/26/2016 04:38 PM, Ash Alam wrote:
> >>>> I wanted to follow up on this as i finally gotten around to doing the
> >>>> upgrade. I an running into this error. I also found a bugzilla ticket.
> >>> Do
> >>>> you have to do some type of schema upgrade like you do with active
> >>>> directory?
> >>>>
> >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235766
> >>>>
> >>>>     STDERR: ipa         : CRITICAL The master CA directory server does
> >>> not
> >>>> have necessary schema. Please copy the following script to all CA
> >>> masters
> >>>> and run it on them: /usr/share/ipa/copy-schema-to-ca.py
> >>>>
> >>>>     If you are certain that this is a false positive, use
> >>>> --skip-schema-check.
> >>>>
> >>>>     ipa.ipapython.install.cli.install_tool(Replica): ERROR    IPA
> schema
> >>>> missing on master CA directory server
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank You
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 11/20/2015 04:08 PM, Ash Alam wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Most of the clients in my env are centos 6.6 with ipa 3.0.0 client
> >>>>>> installed. I
> >>>>>> if bring up a replica on centos 7.2 with ipa 4.2.3 server and then
> >>> start
> >>>>>> phasing out the older 3.0.0 servers. Will the client that are still
> >>>>>> running the
> >>>>>> older client software still work?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It should, yes. It is expected that there are RHEL/CentOS-6 clients
> >>> with
> >>>>> RHEL-7 FreeIPA servers. The older clients just won't be able to use
> the
> >>>>> newest features.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com
> >>>>>> <mailto:mkosek at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     On 11/19/2015 11:03 PM, Ash Alam wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>         Hello All
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>         I am looking for some advice on upgrading. Currently our
> >>> FreeIPA
> >>>>>>         servers are
> >>>>>>         3.0.0 on centos 6.6. We are looking to go to 4.2.3 Centos7.
> >>> This
> >>>>>>         upgrade path
> >>>>>>         is not possible per IPA documentation. Minimum version
> >>> required
> >>>>>> is 3.3.x. I
> >>>>>>         have also found that cenos6 does not provide anything past
> >>> 3.0.0.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     And it won't. There are no plans in updating FreeIPA version in
> >>>>>>     RHEL/CentOS-6.x, we encourage people who want the new features
> to
> >>>>>> migrate
> >>>>>>     to RHEL-7.x:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Migration#Migrating_Identity_Management_in_RHEL.2FCentOS
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/upgrading.html#migrating-ipa-proc
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     If you want to wait on CentOS-7.2, it should be in works now:
> >>>>>>     http://seven.centos.org/2015/11/rhel-7-2-released-today/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>         One idea is to upgrade to 3.3.x first and then upgrade to
> >>> 4.2.3
> >>>>>> on centos7.
> >>>>>>         This is harder since centos does not provide this. The other
> >>>>>> issue is if
> >>>>>>         3.0/3.3 client will be supported with 4.2.3 server.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     The right way is to migrate via creating replicas in
> >>> RHEL/CentOS-7.x
> >>>>>> and
> >>>>>>     slowly deprecating RHEL/CentOS-6 ones. Detailed procedure in the
> >>>>>> links above.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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