[Freeipa-users] sssd.service start operation timed out

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 06:42:01PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> If I reboot my LXC server, then sssd doesn't come up in some containers.
> The logfile of an affected host shows
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> - -- Reboot --
> Feb 27 17:17:23 lxc1.example.com systemd[1]: Starting System Security Services Daemon...
> Feb 27 17:17:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[392]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:17:54 lxc1.example.com sssd[be[471]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:17:59 lxc1.example.com sssd[485]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:17:59 lxc1.example.com sssd[487]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:17:59 lxc1.example.com sssd[486]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:17:59 lxc1.example.com sssd[484]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:18:00 lxc1.example.com sssd[488]: Starting up
> Feb 27 17:18:13 lxc1.example.com sssd_be[471]: GSSAPI client step 1
> Feb 27 17:18:13 lxc1.example.com sssd_be[471]: GSSAPI client step 1
> Feb 27 17:18:15 lxc1.example.com sssd_be[471]: GSSAPI client step 1
> Feb 27 17:18:15 lxc1.example.com sssd_be[471]: GSSAPI client step 2
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com systemd[1]: sssd.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[485]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[484]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[488]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[be[471]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[487]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com sssd[486]: Shutting down
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start System Security Services Daemon.
> Feb 27 17:18:53 lxc1.example.com systemd[1]: Unit sssd.service entered failed state.
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> Shouldn't it keep on trying, or retry after a few minutes?

We don't have any such functionality..

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> sssd is version 1.12.5. Google doesn't mention this problem, so I
> wonder what is happening here?

I would suggest to look into the sssd logs..