Bug 440475

Summary: ipa_webgui does not start after initial installation
Product: [Retired] freeIPA Reporter: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Component: WebUIAssignee: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version: 1.0CC: benl, jgalipea, ssorce
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Fixed In Version: freeipa-2.0.0-1.fc15 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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move ipa.conf creation earlier in installation none

Description Rob Crittenden 2008-04-03 18:02:36 UTC
After installation ipa_webgui does not start. It errors out with this in
/var/log/ipaerror.log:

ERROR:root:failed to start web gui: IPA server not found in DNS, in the config
file (/etc/ipa/ipa.conf) or on the command line.
  File "/usr/sbin/ipa_webgui", line 178, in <module>
    main()

  File "/usr/sbin/ipa_webgui", line 173, in main
    from ipagui.controllers import Root

  File "/usr/share/ipa/ipagui/controllers.py", line 34, in <module>
    from subcontrollers.user import UserController

  File "/usr/share/ipa/ipagui/subcontrollers/user.py", line 32, in <module>
    from ipacontroller import IPAController

  File "/usr/share/ipa/ipagui/subcontrollers/ipacontroller.py", line 35, in <module>
    ipa.config.init_config()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ipa/config.py", line 151, in init_config
    raise IPAConfigError("IPA server not found in DNS, in the config file
(/etc/ipa/ipa.conf) or on the command line.")

I wonder if this is a timing issue, that we aren't writing /etc/ipa/ipa.conf
until after we start the UI.

Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2008-04-03 19:26:24 UTC
Created attachment 300316 [details]
move ipa.conf creation earlier in installation

Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2008-04-03 21:36:25 UTC
committed as changeset 769

Comment 4 Jenny Severance 2008-11-25 16:26:52 UTC
fix verified:

ipa_webgui running directly after installation.

[root@jennyv4 log]# ps -ef | grep ipa
root     12238     1  0 01:18 ?        00:00:00 ipa_kpasswd
apache   12365     1  0 01:19 ?        00:00:01 /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/ipa_webgui