Bug 1715961

Summary: Replica install continuously fails due to missing data in userRoot
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Corey Brown <cobrown>
Component: ipaAssignee: IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: ipa-qe <ipa-qe>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.6CC: frenaud, msauton, pvoborni, rcritten, tmihinto, tscherf
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2019-10-17 10:43:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Corey Brown 2019-05-31 19:00:06 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading Ipa server to the latest available packages, the customer tried to install a replica from the upgraded server and it fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 7.6
ipa-server-4.6.4-10.el7_6.2

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ipa server upgrade
2.ipa-replica-install -d --domain symprod.com --server avid4p03.symprod.com --realm SYMPROD.COM -p admin -w passwd
3.

Actual results:
replica install fails

Expected results:
replica install succeeds

Additional info:
-installation of server fails at CA setup
-requested cu install ipa without CA first - successful
-requested cu run ipa-ca-install - failed with error CA already exists for domain
-requested cu create replica file from master first
-gave cu steps to prep system for installation

Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2019-05-31 19:09:50 UTC
Upgrade from what?

Need way more details on what was done, exact commands please.

Need to see installation logs.

Comment 5 Corey Brown 2019-05-31 19:36:26 UTC
Created attachment 1575824 [details]
ipa replica install log

Comment 9 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2019-09-20 12:31:40 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/7971

Comment 12 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2019-10-17 10:43:25 UTC
The fix will be provided on RHEL8 only, hence closing as NEXTRELEASE.