[Freeipa-users] Traceback starting pki-cad - ca.subsystem.certreq missing?

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 06:42:04PM +0100, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am running IPA 3.0.0 on CentOS 6 (32-bit x86), and I am getting a
> > traceback every time pki-cad starts:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/pki-server", line 89, in <module>
> >     cli.execute(sys.argv)
> >   File "/usr/sbin/pki-server", line 84, in execute
> >     super(PKIServerCLI, self).execute(args)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pki/cli.py", line 195, in execute
> >     module.execute(module_args)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pki/server/cli/upgrade.py", line
> > 103, in execute
> >     scriptlet.execute()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pki/server/upgrade/__init__.py",
> > line 50, in execute
> >     cert = self.subsystem.get_system_cert('subsystem')
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pki/server/__init__.py", line 93,
> > in get_system_cert
> >     cert['request'] = base64.b64decode(self.config['%s.%s.certreq' %
> > (self.prefix, tag)])
> > KeyError: 'ca.subsystem.certreq'
> > Starting pki-ca:                                           [  OK  ]
> >
> > As you can see, the daemon does still start successfully, and the
> > traceback doesn't appear in any of the pki-cad logs.
> >
> >
> yes, I see this too after the last round of updates. Curiously enough, just
> on one of the kdcs, the other does not have this traceback.
> 
> Both are centos 6.7 fully patched, 32 bits.
> 
You can resolve the issue by stopping pki-cad, adding
'ca.subsystem.certreq=' (empty value) to CS.cfg, then restarting
pki-cad.  AFAICT the absense of the certreq field will not cause any
problems.

I'm still investigating what caused the 'ca.subsystem.certreq'
config to disappear from CS.cfg in the first place.