[Freeipa-users] FreeIPA 4.2.0: An error has occurred (IPA Error 4301: CertificateOperationError)

Fri Jun 10 15:24:48 UTC 2016

An update: The journalctl command has some really interesting output:

Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: WARNING:  Symbolic link '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/alias' does NOT exist!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: INFO:  Attempting to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/alias' -> '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/aliJun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/alias’: Permission denied
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ERROR:  Failed to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/alias' -> '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias'Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: WARNING:  Symbolic link '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/logs' does NOT exist!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: INFO:  Attempting to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/logs' -> '/var/log/pki/pki-tomcat'Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/logs’: Permission denied
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ERROR:  Failed to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/logs' -> '/var/log/pki/pki-tomcat'!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: WARNING:  Symbolic link '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/bin' does NOT exist!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: INFO:  Attempting to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/bin' -> '/usr/share/tomcat/bin' . Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/bin’: Permission denied
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ERROR:  Failed to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/bin' -> '/usr/share/tomcat/bin'!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: WARNING:  Symbolic link '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf' does NOT exist!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: INFO:  Attempting to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf' -> '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat' . .Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf’: Permission denied
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com pkidaemon[25032]: ERROR:  Failed to create '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/conf' -> '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat'!
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com systemd[1]: pki-tomcatd at pki-tomcat.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 10 11:16:23 ipa.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat.

Which makes me think All we have to do is create the right directory structures/links and/or change the file permissions? But which ones and to whom?

—Dan

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From: <freeipa-users-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of Daniel Finkestein <Dan.Finkelstein at high5games.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 17:11
To: "freeipa-users at redhat.com" <freeipa-users at redhat.com>
Subject: [Freeipa-users] FreeIPA 4.2.0: An error has occurred (IPA Error 4301: CertificateOperationError)

I have a promoted CA master/FreeIPA 4.2.0 instance on CentOS 7 that emits this error in the httpd logs whenever the WebUI tries to see the certificates page:

[Wed Jun 08 16:56:27.052106 2016] [:error] [pid 2863] ipa: ERROR: ipaserver.plugins.dogtag.ra.find(): Unable to communicate with CMS ([Errno 111] Connection refused)
[Wed Jun 08 16:56:27.052401 2016] [:error] [pid 2863] ipa: INFO: [jsonserver_session] dfinkelstein at EXAMPLE.COM: cert_find(version=u'2.156'): CertificateOperationError

The certificates appear as follows:

[root at ipa httpd]# certutil -L -d /etc/httpd/alias/

Certificate Nickname                                         Trust Attributes
                                                             SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI

Server-Cert                                                  u,u,u
auditSigningCert cert-pki-ca                                 u,u,u
EXAMPLE.COM IPA CA                                             CTu,u,Cu
ipaCert                                                      u,u,u
ocspSigningCert cert-pki-ca                                  u,u,u
subsystemCert cert-pki-ca                                    u,u,u

Upon reboot, httpd fails to start with the error: Failed to start Identity, Policy, Audit. But it can be started later with `ipactl restart`. Finally, the two last IPA services don't appear to start:

[root at ipa]# ipactl status
Directory Service: RUNNING
krb5kdc Service: RUNNING
kadmin Service: RUNNING
named Service: RUNNING
ipa_memcached Service: RUNNING
httpd Service: RUNNING
pki-tomcatd Service: RUNNING
ipa-otpd Service: STOPPED
ipa-dnskeysyncd Service: STOPPED
ipa: INFO: The ipactl command was successful

I'd appreciate any guidance or suggestions.

Thanks,
Dan

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