[Freeipa-users] ipa-replica-prepare Certificate issuance failed

Thu Jul 7 14:02:14 UTC 2016

Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 05/07/16 11:52, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> On 04/07/2016 15:12, Martin Babinsky wrote:
>>> On 07/04/2016 10:23 AM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I installed my first master ipa server (server1) many months ago
>>>> (Redhat
>>>> 7.1 IIRC) and made a replica server2 without problems.
>>>>
>>>> Now I'd like to bring online another replica (server3).
>>>>
>>>> All servers are now on Redhat 7.2 ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7_2.17.x86_64,
>>>> but I get the following error when I run this on server1:
>>>>
>>>> server1> ipa-replica-prepare server3.example.com
>>>>
>>>> Directory Manager (existing master) password:
>>>>
>>>> Preparing replica for server3.example.com from server1.example.com
>>>> Creating SSL certificate for the Directory Server
>>>> Certificate issuance failed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I repeat this on server2, my fist replica, it succeeds.
>>>>
>>>> Running in debug mode on server1:
>>>> server1> ipa-replica-prepare --debug server3.example.com
>>>> gives a lot of output of which the following seems relevant (some info
>>>> has been anonymised):
>>>>
>>>> Generating key.  This may take a few moments...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: request POST
>>>> https://server1.example.com:8443/ca/ee/ca/profileSubmitSSLClient
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: request body
>>>> 'profileId=caIPAserviceCert&requestor_name=IPA+Installer&cert_request=...CU24QyOEd%0A&cert_request_type=pkcs10&xmlOutput=true'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: NSSConnection init server1.example.com
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: Connecting: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: approved_usage = SSL Server intended_usage = SSL Server
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: cert valid True for "CN=server1.example.com,O=EXAMPLE.COM"
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: handshake complete, peer = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8443
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: Protocol: TLS1.2
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: Cipher: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: response status 200
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: response headers {'date': 'Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:13:37 GMT',
>>>> 'content-length': '161', 'content-type': 'application/xml', 'server':
>>>> 'Apache-Coyote/1.1'}
>>>> ipa: DEBUG: response body '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
>>>> standalone="no"?><XMLResponse><Status>1</Status><Error>Server Internal
>>>> Error</Error><RequestId>  3</RequestId></XMLResponse>'
>>>> ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_replica_prepare.ReplicaPrepare: DEBUG:   File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipapython/admintool.py", line 171, in
>>>> execute
>>>>     return_value = self.run()
>>>>   File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_replica_prepare.py",
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> line 337, in run
>>>>     self.copy_ds_certificate()
>>>>   File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_replica_prepare.py",
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> line 382, in copy_ds_certificate
>>>>     self.export_certdb("dscert", passwd_fname)
>>>>   File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_replica_prepare.py",
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> line 589, in export_certdb
>>>>     db.create_server_cert(nickname, hostname, ca_db)
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/certs.py",
>>>> line 337, in create_server_cert
>>>>     cdb.issue_server_cert(self.certreq_fname, self.certder_fname)
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaserver/install/certs.py",
>>>> line 418, in issue_server_cert
>>>>     raise RuntimeError("Certificate issuance failed")
>>>>
>>>> ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_replica_prepare.ReplicaPrepare: DEBUG: The
>>>> ipa-replica-prepare command failed, exception: RuntimeError:
>>>> Certificate
>>>> issuance failed
>>>> ipa.ipaserver.install.ipa_replica_prepare.ReplicaPrepare: ERROR:
>>>> Certificate issuance failed
>>>>
>>>> If its of relevance I did change the directory manager password on both
>>>> server1 and server2 a couple of weeks ago.
>>>>
>>>> I'd appreciate some pointers to resolving this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Roderick Johnstone
>>>>
>>> Hi Roderick,
>>>
>>> try to look in the logs of the pki-ca subsystem. They should be located
>>> in /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/ directory. Look into the "system" and
>>> "debug" logs mainly.
>>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Thanks for the pointers. We had looked at a lot of log files, but not
>> those ones!
>>
>> We were running the ipa-replica-prepare during the afternoon of 1 July.
>> Here are the last few entries in the system log file.
>>
>> 0.profileChangeMonitor - [24/Jun/2016:04:45:51 BST] [8] [3] In Ldap
>> (bound) connection pool to host server1.example.com port 636, Cannot
>> connect to LDAP server. Error: netscape.ldap.LDAPException: IO Error
>> creating JSS SSL Socket (-1)
>> 0.CRLIssuingPoint-MasterCRL - [01/Jul/2016:10:26:04 BST] [3] [3]
>> CRLIssuingPoint MasterCRL - Cannot store the CRL cache in the
>> internaldb. Error LDAP operation failure -
>> cn=MasterCRL,ou=crlIssuingPoints, ou=ca, o=ipaca
>> netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result (1)
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-4 - [01/Jul/2016:16:04:58 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x1
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-6 - [01/Jul/2016:16:07:18 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x2
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-8 - [01/Jul/2016:16:13:37 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x3
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-4 - [01/Jul/2016:17:07:01 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x1
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-6 - [01/Jul/2016:17:28:35 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x2
>> 0.http-bio-8443-exec-8 - [01/Jul/2016:17:56:02 BST] [3] [3] Could not
>> store certificate serial number 0x3
>>
>>
>> At corresponding times, in the debug logs there are entries like:
>>
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:04:58][http-bio-8443-exec-4]: LDAP operation failure -
>> cn=1,ou=certificateRepository, ou=ca, o=ipaca
>> netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result (68)
>>
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:04:58][http-bio-8443-exec-4]: CertRequestSubmitter:
>> submit LDAP operation failure - cn=1,ou=certificateRepository, ou=ca,
>> o=ipaca netscape.ldap.LDAPException: error result (68)
>>
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:04:58][http-bio-8443-exec-4]: SignedAuditEventFactory:
>> create()
>> message=[AuditEvent=CERT_REQUEST_PROCESSED][SubjectID=ipara][Outcome=Failure][ReqID=1][InfoName=rejectReason][InfoValue=Server
>>
>> Internal Error] certificate request processed
>>
>> And then in the dirsrv error file there seems to be one of these for
>> each of the attempts to run ipa-replica-prepare:
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:04:57 +0100] - Entry "uid=admin,ou=people,o=ipaca" --
>> attribute "krbExtraData" not allowed
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:07:16 +0100] - Entry "uid=admin,ou=people,o=ipaca" --
>> attribute "krbExtraData" not allowed
>> [01/Jul/2016:16:13:36 +0100] - Entry "uid=admin,ou=people,o=ipaca" --
>> attribute "krbExtraData" not allowed
>>
>> Do you think this is looking like the root cause? Can you suggest how we
>> fix that?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Roderick
>>
>
> Hi
>
> Did anyone have any ideas on fixing this please. I'm a bit stuck now.

When you changed the DM passwords did you follow this,
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Change_Directory_Manager_Password

rob