I recently tried installing freeipa on a new server, but ipa-server-install had problems around this point:<div><br></div><div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Configuring certificate server: Estimated time 3 minutes 30 seconds</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> [1/18]: creating certificate server user</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> [2/18]: creating pki-ca instance</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> [3/18]: configuring certificate server instance</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">ipa : CRITICAL failed to configure ca instance Command '/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/pkisilent ConfigureCA -cs_hostname <a href="http://fs1.wedgeofli.me">fs1.wedgeofli.me</a> -cs_port 9445 -client_certdb_dir /tmp/tmp-UvBMbL -client_certdb_pwd XXXXXXXX -preop_pin HHxKHUz5RRfzQ3OkFMlR -domain_name IPA -admin_user admin -admin_email root@localhost -admin_XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX -agent_name ipa-ca-agent -agent_key_size 2048 -agent_key_type rsa -agent_cert_subject CN=ipa-ca-agent,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -ldap_host <a href="http://fs1.wedgeofli.me">fs1.wedgeofli.me</a> -ldap_port 7389 -bind_dn cn=Directory Manager -bind_XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX -base_dn o=ipaca -db_name ipaca -key_size 2048 -key_type rsa -key_algorithm SHA256withRSA -save_p12 true -backup_pwd XXXXXXXX -subsystem_name pki-cad -token_name internal -ca_subsystem_cert_subject_name CN=CA Subsystem,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -ca_ocsp_cert_subject_name CN=OCSP Subsystem,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -ca_server_cert_subject_name CN=<a href="http://fs1.wedgeofli.me">fs1.wedgeofli.me</a>,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -ca_audit_signing_cert_subject_name CN=CA Audit,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -ca_sign_cert_subject_name CN=Certificate Authority,O=<a href="http://WEDGEOFLI.ME">WEDGEOFLI.ME</a> -external false -clone false' returned non-zero exit status 255</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Unexpected error - see ipaserver-install.log for details:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> Configuration of CA failed</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">[root@fs1 ~]# </font></div>
</div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The logfile revealed the following stack trace:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"><div>#############################################</div><div>Attempting to connect to: <a href="http://fs1.wedgeofli.me:9445">fs1.wedgeofli.me:9445</a></div><div>Exception in LoginPanel(): java.lang.NullPointerException</div>
<div>ERROR: ConfigureCA: LoginPanel() failure</div><div>ERROR: unable to create CA</div><div><br></div><div>#######################################################################</div><div><br></div><div>2012-10-17T16:24:53Z DEBUG stderr=Exception: Unable to Send Request:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused</div>
<div>java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:391)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:425)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:241)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at HTTPClient.sslConnect(HTTPClient.java:326)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.LoginPanel(ConfigureCA.java:244)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.ConfigureCAInstance(ConfigureCA.java:1157)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.main(ConfigureCA.java:1672)</div><div>java.lang.NullPointerException</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.LoginPanel(ConfigureCA.java:245)</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.ConfigureCAInstance(ConfigureCA.java:1157)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at ConfigureCA.main(ConfigureCA.java:1672)</div>
<div><br></div></font></div><div>Now I seem to be stuck. I tried uninstalling the freeipa-server package with # yum remove freeipa-server and then reinstalled it the same way, but ipa-server-install won't run no matter what I attempt.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any thoughts? I'm pretty new to IPA.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Bret Wortman</div><div>The Damascus Group</div><div>Fairfax, VA</div><div><br></div>
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