[Pki-devel] [PATCH] pki-tomcatd fails to start on system boot

[Matthew Harmsen]

Please review the attached patch which addresses the following issues:

  * PKI TRAC Ticket #1315 - pki-tomcatd fails to start on system boot
    <https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/1315>
  * PKI TRAC Ticket #1340 - pkidestroy should not remove /var/lib/pki
    <https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/1340>

Note that this was tested successfully on my Fedora 21 laptop.

After numerous re-writes in which I attempted to make it work on an 
individual PKI instance (but not subsystems within a shared PKI 
instance), I finally gave in and made it work as explained in the 
'pki_default.cfg' man page.

The issue was that 'systemctl disable <instance>' not only removed the 
desired symbolic link from 
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants', but also caused the 
deletion of the entire '/etc/systemd/system/pki-targetd.target.wants' 
directory (which is owned by the pki-server package).  Within PKI, this 
directory and its internal symbolic link are always required for proper 
operation, and it confused the system so badly, I was not able to 
restore it by simply re-running 'systemctl enable <instance>'.

As the revised man page states, to manually disable PKI instances from 
starting upon reboot, run 'systemctl disable pki-tomcatd.target', to 
manually enable them, run 'systemctl enable pki-tomcatd.target'; no one 
should ever run 'systemctl enable/disable <pki instance>' (nor for that 
matter 'systemctl enable/disable <389 instance>') as this confuses the 
system.

Additionally, this patch makes the change to 'infrastructure_layout.py' 
to only create/remove the '/var/lib/pki' directory (owned by the 
'pki-server' package) when it has been relocated using pkispawn's '-p 
<prefix>' test parameter.

Finally, since another line was added to the final status report 
produced at the end of 'pkispawn', I streamlined the spacing a bit in 
this patch.

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